Wagner's Das Rheingold
- Author: Darcy, Warren
the most comprehensive study of the opera yet ... Darcy uses his work on the sources to describe the compositional process of the opera, but also as a springboard for a thoroughgoing analysis.... — More…
Book
$72.75Special import
Contents
- Structural outline of "Das Rheingold"
- preliminaries
- the documentary sources
- the forging of the text
- analytical positions
- the opera as a whole
- "creation ex nihilo" - the prelude
- scene one
- first transformation and scene two
- second transformation and scene three
- third transformation and scene four. Appendices: transcriptions from Wagner's complete draft
- works cited.
