The fertilizing seed
Subtitle: Wagner's concept of the poetic intent
By: by Frank W. Glass.
Series: Studies in musicology ;; no. 63
Publisher: UMI Research Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Aesthetics.
Description: Introduction -- Influences on Wagner's theory of opera -- The theory of opera set forth in "Oper und Drama"--Wagner's later theories of opera -- "Music and the inner movements of the soul" : Tristan und Isolde -- "Ideal naturalism and the singing tongue" : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- "Music divorced from the reasoned word" : Parsifal -- Conclusions.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [313]-316.
Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981.
Includes index.