Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology

by Stephen McClatchie

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 it considers Lorenz's work and contributions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580460232
• ISBN13: 9781580460231
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"