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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Richard Wagner"”.
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Orchestration in the Operas of Richard Wagner
… remarkably underrepresented in the field of Wagner scholarship, despite the fact that Wagner’s treatment of the orchestra was recognised as exceptional within his lifetime and has been consistently praised since. David Trippett, for example, has cited orchestration in the years around …
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A guide to national socialism : the Third Reich and Richard Wagner
This study of Richard Wagner's life and works and their supposed influence on Adolf Hitler and the founders of the Third Reich was prompted by the readily available amount of extremely divergent opinion on the subject. Remarks such as the following are common: As long as Wagner's operas continue to …
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A Match Made in Heaven or Hell: Historians Debate the Influence of Richard Wagner on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
<p>This is an analysis of the contributions of Richard Wagner's ideas to the development of Adolf Hitler as seen by various historians.</p> <p>This author has consulted the works of many different authors to attempt to find the ideological roots of Adolf Hitler.</p> <p>The ideology of Richard …
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Conditional Nationalism: A Study of the Nationalistic Ideology of Richard Wagner with Specific Reference to his Music-Drama Die Meistersinger Von Nuremberg
The nationalism of Richard Wagner has been a hotly contested matter in the popular and academic spheres since even his own lifetime. While it is generally agreed upon that Wagner’s work celebrates German nationalism and identity to some degree, a debate rages on under the banner of this discussion, …
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A composium in four quarters
… Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, and Arnold Schoenberg.
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“A Door Left Open”: Tracing Shakespeare’s Influence in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
… the “total work of art,” German opera composer Richard Wagner sought the perfect artistic synthesis of music and dramatic theater. Crucial to this vision was the idea that music and drama should be equally well constructed. However, while a considerable amount of Wagner scholarship has focused …
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Stephen Sondheim's Gesamtkunstwerk: The Concept Musical As Wagnerian Total Theatre
… proposed in the nineteenth century by composer Richard Wagner. My thesis will argue that the similarity between Sondheim's concept musical and Wagner's total theatre is more than purely theoretical; it is practical as well, involving structural parallels such as leitmotif, minor chord …
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTION: USE OF LEITMOTIF IN THE FIRST ACTS OF LES MISÉRABLES AND HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL
… film scores, and musical theater. Accredited to Richard Wagner, leitmotifs enhance storytelling and provide a sense of cohesion to a production. The popular musicals Les Misérables and Hamilton bear many similarities, including the use of leitmotif as a storytelling device. This thesis explores …
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Mouvoir dans l'espace: une esthétique musico-poétique chez Debussy et Mallarmé
… the era argued for its superiority over poetry. Richard Wagner convinced many artists of the time of the need to subsume poetry into music for the sake of creating a Gesamtkunstwerk, or a total work of art. The result of this dialogue can best be examined by studying the relationship between the …
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La recepción de la obra wagneriana en el Madrid decimonónico
… presente tesis doctoral, La recepción de la obra wagneriana en el Madrid decimonónico, es realizar una “historia del efecto”, ordenando cronológicamente las interpretaciones wagnerianas (audiciones en concierto y representaciones de ópera) y los escritos de Richard Wagner (o sobre el compositor) …
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Dance with Musical Architecture: Eurhythmy in Gottfried Semper's works
A musician and an architect, Richard Wagner and Gottfried Semper, two German artists, influenced the theory of art in the nineteenth century in Germany. Wagner met Semper in a music shop and later they participated in various discussions regarding the history and theories of art and they both held …
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Claude Debussy: Harmonic Innovations in Historical and Musical Context
… point. Composers were forced to either extend Wagnerian chromatic harmonies to their limits or make a conscious determination to strike against this path. While composers like Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School expanded chromaticism to a completely atonal application in 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
Richard Wagner is one of the most important and influential composers for scholars of film music. His concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk or "total art work," which combined music, visuals and storytelling, played an indelible role in the creation of film aesthetics, especially with regard to music and …
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Richard Heuberger's Erinnerungen an Johannes Brahms : the life, work and times of Johannes Brahms as revealed by a contemporary
In 1885, Austrian musician Richard Heuberger, recognizing the lasting importance of his friend and colleague, Johannes Brahms, began to record meticulously each of their meetings and conversations in the form of a journal. It was not until 1971, however, that the complete journal appeared in the …
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Empathy abstracted : George Fuchs and the Munich Artists' Theater
… Reworking the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner in the service of the emerging mass audience, Fuchs advocated "the stage of the future," but created one embedded in its historical moment. Eliciting reactions from major figures in theater, architecture, and the visual arts, it …
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The German Moment in English Musical Culture, 1820-1859
… the disruptive challenge the music and operas of Richard Wagner posed to the English musical canon in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848. Chapter four focuses on concert life in Victorian Manchester, exploring how migrant musicians erected the German musical tradition at the centre of the …
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Catalog of the Music of Nick Strimple (B. 1946)
… by musicologists comes from noted musicologist Richard Taruskin, in Music in the Nineteenth Century. Taruskin wrote, regarding Richard Wagner, “We are in an unusually favored position to investigate his aims, since he wrote so prolifically about them.” (Italics added.) Taruskin’s words exemplify …
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The Critical Reception of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in the English-Speaking World
… as much controversy, in as many places, as Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. History shows that during the latter half of the 19th century spirited discussion and outright debate follwed the work to every new city that dared to produce it. This paper will focus on the critical reception …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
Richard Wagner is a pre-eminent figure in musical history, but little is known about the influence of his librettos and poetic style in English-speaking contexts. This PhD dissertation corrects this situation. Its main argument engages nineteenth-century poetry, revealing how Wagner affected …
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