Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

By Hight, George Ainslie

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Title:	Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Author:	Hight, George Ainslie
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Ainslie Hight, B. G. (n.d.). Wagners Tristan und Isolde. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
The following pages contain little if anything that is new, or that would be likely to interest those who are already at home in Wagner?s work. They are intended for those who are beginning the study of Wagner. In spite of many books, I know of no Wagner literature in English to which a beginner can turn who wishes to know what Wagner was aiming at, in what respect his works differ from those of the operatic composers who preceded him. Some sort of Introduction appears to me a necessary preliminary to the study of Wagner, not because his works are artificial or unnatural, but because our minds have become perverted by the highly artificial products of the Italian and French opera, so that a work of Wagner at first appears to us very much as Paradise Lost or a tragedy of Sophokles would appear to a person who had never read anything but light French novels. He must entirely change the attitude of his mind, and the change, although it be a return to nature and truth, is not easy to make.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS CHAPTER I. ON WAGNER CRITICISM II. WAGNER AS MAN III. WAGNER'S THEORETICAL WRITINGS IV. THE ROOTS OF GERMAN MUSIC V. THE WAGNERIAN DRAMA AND ITS ANTECEDENTS VI. THE EARLIER VERSIONS OF THE TRISTAN MYTH VII. WAGNER'S CONCEPTION OF THE TRISTAN MYTHOS VIII. ON CERTAIN OBJECTIONS TO THE WAGNERIAN DRAMA IX. MUSIC AS AN ART OF EXPRESSION X. SOME REMARKS ON THE MUSICAL DICTION OF TRISTAN UND ISOLDE XI. OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC XII. OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC CONTINUED XIII. OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC CONTINUED XIV. CONCLUSION APPENDIX