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

by Stephen McClatchie

Book Overview

An examination of work by the German music theorist, Alfred Lorenz, to explain Wagner's operas and how they fit with German nationalist ideology.

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...

• 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"