| Beyond Reason: Wagner Contra Nietzsche Contributor(s): Berger, Karol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520292758 ISBN-13: 9780520292758 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Opera - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Music | Individual Composer & Musician |
| Dewey: 782.109 |
| LCCN: 2016015325 |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 6" W x 9" (2.10 lbs) 552 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beyond Reason relates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von N rnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the "secret" of large-scale form in Wagner's music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently Nietzsche, who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera, this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts. |