| Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde Contributor(s): Hight, George Ainslie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1162716169 ISBN-13: 9781162716169 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $19.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Opera - Literary Collections - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 800 |
| Physical Information: 0.19" H x 8.25" W x 11" (0.51 lbs) 94 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wagner's Tristan has often--even by Lichtenberger--been described as a philosophic work; and as abstract thought or philosophy, it is said, is foreign to art, a work which admits it must be condemned. Let us first understand what is meant by philosophy. It is surely a train of thought in the mind of the spectator, not in the object which he contemplates. Anything in the world may be the subject of philosophic thought, or may suggest it; there is plenty of philosophy to be drawn from a daisy, but we do not therefore call a daisy a philosophic flower. So, too, we may philosophize about Wagner's Tristan, but the philosophy is our own; it is not in the work. |