Wagner's musical prose
Subtitle: texts and contexts
By: Thomas S. Grey.
Series: New perspectives in music history and criticism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883.; Music.; Drama.; Opera.
Notes: Includes bibliography.

"This book is a study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their relation to music criticism and aesthetics in the nineteenth century in general"
Table of contents: title: Wagner and the problematics of "absolute music" in the nineteenth century; title: Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: "poetic ideas" and new forms; title: Engendering music drama: opera and drama and its metaphors; title: The "poetic-musical period" and the "evolution" of Wagnerian form; title: Endless melodies; title: Motives and motivations: leitmotif and "symphonic" drama.