MUSIC 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nibelung, Franz Liszt, Wieland Wagner
20 Jan 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The ring of the nibelung (der ring des nibelungen) The four-opera cycle had its premiere in bayreuth, germany, in. Event of enormous cultural significance in the western world. Wagner"s festival theater (festspielhaus) built for these performances; still home to a summer festival of wagner"s works, directed by his descendants: the ring of the nibelung (cont. , wagner"s conception of opera. Mythic subject matter and continuous musical drama, without. Basic plot of the ring centers on the hero siegfried, whose. Wagner considered the ring to be a drama, not an opera . Relationship between words and music is altered; wagner brought more attention to unifying the details of the work (libretto, instrumental music, stagecraft) best rendered through music; his dramas are acts of music made visible . Wagner"s works are based on the idea that human passions are: wagner"s conception of opera (cont. ) Total work of art (gesamtkunstwerk): wagner"s term for the. The ring is based on norse legends; the mythological figures.
