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In this comprehensive study of Tristan und Isolde Eric Chafe has created a text that will serve as a point of reference for generations of scholars when they refer to this seminal work...Chafe has created a model investigation that will enable listeners to return to Wagner's familiar score and reclaim for themselves the nuances in the opera. * Tristania *

Table of Contents
1. The Path to Schopenhauer ; 2. Tristan and Schopenhauer ; 3. Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg I: Minne ; 4. Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg II: Honor ; 5. The Desire Music ; 6. The Prelude: A Musicopoetic View ; 7. Tragedy and Dramatic Structure ; 8. The Two Death Motives ; 9. Musicopoetic Design in Act One ; 10. Act Two, Scene One: Night and Minne ; 11. The Love Scene in Act Two: Transition and Periodicity ; 12. Tristan's Answer to King Mark: Moral and Philosophical Questions ; 13. Act Three: Musicopoetic Design ; 14. Love as Fearful Torment ; 15. The Road to Salvation

The Tragic and the Ecstatic The Musical Revolution of Wagners Tristan and Isolde

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 8 December 2008
      ISBN-13 9780195343007
      978-0195343007
      ISBN-10 019534300X
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      Description



      Trade Review
      In this comprehensive study of Tristan und Isolde Eric Chafe has created a text that will serve as a point of reference for generations of scholars when they refer to this seminal work...Chafe has created a model investigation that will enable listeners to return to Wagner's familiar score and reclaim for themselves the nuances in the opera. * Tristania *

      Table of Contents
      1. The Path to Schopenhauer ; 2. Tristan and Schopenhauer ; 3. Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg I: Minne ; 4. Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg II: Honor ; 5. The Desire Music ; 6. The Prelude: A Musicopoetic View ; 7. Tragedy and Dramatic Structure ; 8. The Two Death Motives ; 9. Musicopoetic Design in Act One ; 10. Act Two, Scene One: Night and Minne ; 11. The Love Scene in Act Two: Transition and Periodicity ; 12. Tristan's Answer to King Mark: Moral and Philosophical Questions ; 13. Act Three: Musicopoetic Design ; 14. Love as Fearful Torment ; 15. The Road to Salvation

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