The tragic and the ecstatic [electronic resource] : the musical revolution of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde / Eric Chafe.
Publication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2004.Description: viii, 3330p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 782.1 22
- ML410.W14 C43 2004eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-325) and index.
The path to Schopenhauer -- Tristan and Schopenhauer -- Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg I : Minne -- Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg II : Honor -- The desire music -- The Prelude : a musico-poetic view -- Tragedy and dramatic structure -- The two death motives -- Musico-poetic design in Act 1 -- Act 2, Scene 1 : night and Minne -- The Love Scene in Act 2 : transition and periodicity -- Tristan's answer to King Mark : moral and philosophical questions -- Act 3 : musico-poetic design -- Love as fearful torment -- The road to salvation.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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