Analyzing Wagner's operas
Subtitle: Alfred Lorenz and German nationalist ideology
By: Stephen McClatchie.
Series: Eastman studies in music ;; [10]; Eastman studies in music ;; v. 10.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Lorenz, Alfred Ottokar, 1868-1939.; Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.; Musical form.
Description: The work of the Wagnerian theorist and analyst Alfred Lorenz (1869-1939) has had a profound influence upon both Wagnerian scholarship and music analysis in the twentieth century, and yet it has never been properly evaluated. Analyzing Wagner's Operas outlines the origins and development of the expressive aesthetic in writings by Wagner and others, as well as in early twentieth-century theories of musical form, and the book considers Lorenz's work and contributions in this light.

It also hopes to show, to the extent possible, where the work by Lorenz acted as a sort of "musical metaphor" for German nationalist ideology during the Nazi era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-262) and index.