Title: Richard Wagner for the new millennium : essays in music and culture /
Authors: Bribitzer-Stull, Matthew, 1972-; Lubet, Alex, 1954-; Wagner, Gottfried, 1947-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Wagner, Richard, Criticism and interpretation.; MUSIC Individual Composer & Musician.
Abstract: This is the first truly interdisciplinary collection devoted to the legacy of Richard Wagner to merge insights from Musicology and Music Theory with explorations of the composer's vast socio-cultural impact from such fields as History, German, and Disability Studies. The wide ranging topics include Glenn Gould's piano transcriptions, the value of naming musical themes in the music dramas, the status of Wagner in Israel, and the assignment of "Jewish" characteristics in both Wagner's music and polemics and, in recent years, to his descendant, musicologist Gottfried Wagner.
Contents: Lingering dissonances in Wagner scholarship / Matthew Bribitzer-Stull and Alex Lubet -- On the need to debate Richard Wagner in an open society: how to confront Wagner today beyond glorification and condemnation / Gottfried Wagner -- Tracing Mathilde's A♭major / Robert Gauldin -- Glenn Gould and Richard Wagner / Timothy Maloney -- Subverting the conventions of number opera from within: hierarchical and associational uses of tonality in Act I of Der fliegende Holländer / William Marvin -- Naming Wagner's themes / Matthew Bribitzer-Stull -- In search of C major: tonal structure and tonal design in Act III of Die Meistersinger / Warren Darcy -- Lingering discourses: critics, Jews, and the case of Gottfried Wagner / Marc Weiner -- Wagner's emblematic role: the case of the Holocaust commemoration in Israel / Na'ama Sheffi -- Richard Wagner and disability studies / Alex Lubet -- Anti-Semitism in music: Wagner and the origins of the Holocaust / Paul Lawrence Rose.