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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Der Ring des Nibelungen"”.
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“A Door Left Open”: Tracing Shakespeare’s Influence in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
… equally well constructed. However, while a considerable amount of Wagner scholarship has focused on the music Wagner composed, less has explored his methods for creating complex and psychologically rich characters. Richard Wagner the librettist spent considerable time and effort reading and …
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A comparison of Richard Wagner's Der ring des Nibelungen and William Morris's Sigurd the volsung
The thesis compares the text of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with the epic poem Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris. Chapter I begins with an outline of the question under discussion, namely, whether Sigurd the Volsung could have been written as an anti-ring. The rest of the thesis discusses …
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Der Ring des Nibelungen in the New World: the American performance and reception of Wagner's Cycle, 1850-1903
… has received—and continues to receive—considerable scholarly attention. Of significant interest is the period of the late nineteenth century, when the composer’s aesthetic theories and music were being introduced and disseminated on both sides of the Atlantic. This dissertation examines the …
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The legacy of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as reflected in select late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century film media
… especially with regard to music and sound design. Yet, Wagner's actual music has its own curious legacy in film history, in terms of how it is used to interact with a story that often bears no relation to those of Wagner's operas. This is particularly interesting with regard to the Der Ring …
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The leitmotif technique in Puccini's La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly
… In Wagner's musical dramas, especially in Der Ring Des Nibelungen, the leitmotif technique was given special consideration and emphasis. Several motifs appeared together to present complex emotions or situations. The whole Ring is bound by a web of leitmotifs. Compared to Wagner's leitmotif …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
… sphere. This study also contributes to wider debates in cultural history and philosophy. It shows how Wagner Societies offered education in germanophone literature before universities did; how Wagner intervened in evolutionary debating about art; and how his music dramas urged discussion …