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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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20,000 Fewer: The Wagner-Rogers Bill and the Jewish Refugee Crisis
… United States and live in American homes. The Wagner-Rogers Bill, named for Senator Robert Wagner of New York and Representative Edith Rogers of Massachusetts and introduced in February 1939, sought to allow the entry of 20,000 refugee children from Germany. At the time, multiple domestic …
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'Sie rief mich aus der Nacht': The Birth Complex in Nietzsche and Wagner
… Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy and in Richard Wagner’s operas. I see the birth complex as characterised by a dialectical relation between flesh and light, which is itself polarised by the tension between desire and anxiety. A structural determinant of the human relation to the world, this …
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Reclaiming the Projects: Reinterpreting Social Housing Through the Revitalization of the Robert F. Wagner Houses
… standard, in the revitalization of the Robert F. Wagner Houses of Harlem, New York.
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Poetry Into Song: Word-Music Relations in Settings of Goethe's Faust by Wagner and his Contemporaries (1832–1840)
… relationship between text and music evident in Wagner's Sieben Kompositionen zu Goethes Faust (1832) and an array of underappreciated Faust songs composed and published throughout the decade. A secondary concern of this dissertation is to consider to what extent Goethe's attitudes towards the …
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National labor relations act; or, The effects of the Wagner act, to the date of February 20, 1936
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Effect of local changes to shell permeability on the gas exchange of the avian embryo / by Kerstin Wagner.
The chicken embryo's ability to match the perfusion of its chorioallantoic membrane to regional differences in shell conductance was investigated.
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A study of the processes of charging and discharging constant volume tanks with air by C.K. Wagner, F.D. Skinner.
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1953.
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Die Sturm-und-Drang-Bewegung und ihre Spezifika in den Dramen von Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz und Heinrich Leopold Wagner
… Lenz and Die Kindermörderin by Heinrich Leopold Wagner. The aim of the thesis is the find out how the specific characteristic of the movement Sturm und Drang is manifested in these works. The analysis of these works is the starting point for the comparison of the two dramas. The thesis can be …
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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.
… 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 Wagner, as …
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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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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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Stephen Sondheim's Gesamtkunstwerk: The Concept Musical As Wagnerian Total Theatre
… 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 development, and …
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“A Door Left Open”: Tracing Shakespeare’s Influence in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
… 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 on the …
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