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100 1 |aShapiro, Alexander H.
245 14|aThe Consolations of History in Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung|h[electronic resource].
260 |aMilton :|bRoutledge,|c2019.
300 |a1 online resource (179 p.).
490 1 |aRoutledge Research in Music Ser.
500 |aDescription based upon print version of record.
505 0 |aCover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Siegfried as historical anomaly; 2 Brünnhilde and the tragedy of jealousy; 3 Brünnhilde's immolation: dramatizing species consciousness; 4 Brünnhilde's mercy; 5 Renunciation on the Rhine?; 6 Myth versus history; Bibliography; Index
520 |aIn this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Gtterdmmerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapiro advances an ambitious new interpretation which uncovers intriguing new facets to the work's profound insights into the human condition. By taking a fresh look at the philosophical and historical influences on Wagner, and critically reevaluating the composer's intellectual worldview as revealed in his own prose works, letters, and diary entries, the book challenges a number of conventional views that continue to impede a clear understanding of this work's meaning. The book argues that Gtterdmmerung, and hencethe Ring as a whole, achieves coherence when interpreted in terms of contemporary nineteenth-century theories of progress, and, in particular, G.W.F. Hegel's philosophies of mind and history. A central target of the book is the article of faith that has come to dominate Wagner scholarship over the years- that Wagner's encounter in 1854 with Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy conclusively altered the final message of the Ring from one of historical optimism to existential pessimism. The author contends that Schopenhauer's uncompromising denigration of the will and denial of the possibility for human progress find no place in the written text of the Ring or in a plausible reading of the final musical setting. In its place, the author discovers in the famous Immolation Scene a celebration of mankind's inexhaustible capacity for self-improvement and progress. The author makes the further compelling case that this message of progress is communicated not through Siegfried, the traditional male hero of the drama, but through Brnnhilde, the warrior goddess who becomes a mortal woman. In her role as a battle-tested world-historical prophet she is the true revolutionary change agent of Wagner's opera who has the strength and vision to comprehend and thereby shape human history. This highly lucid and accessible study is aimed not only at scholars and researchers in the fields of opera studies, music and philosophy, and music history, butalso Wagner enthusiasts, andreaders and students interested in the history and philosophy of the nineteenth century.
588 |aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
600 10|aWagner, Richard,|d1813-1883.|tRing des Nibelungen.|pGötterdämmerung.
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650 7|aMUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera|2bisacsh
856 40|3Taylor & Francis|uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429281723
856 42|3OCLC metadata license agreement|uhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
901 |aTaylor & Francis