Wagner's Das Rheingold

by Warren Darcy

Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold is a milestone in the composer's output and in the history of music in general. It marked Wagner's return to operatic composition after a hiatus of five years, and signified his definitive break with earlier operatic conventions. It also represents a reconsideration of the whole question of dramatic-musical form, and the role of tonality in articulating this form. Warren Darcy traces here the genesis of Das Rheingold...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198162669
• ISBN13: 9780198162667
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"