Wagner\'s Ring Cycle PDF

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Notes on the composer Wagner's opera series, Ring Cycle....

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) ○ Kindaaa a nazi ○ Was a kappellmeister in opera houses until the 1840s ○ Wagner’s ideals - total reinvention of opera ○ Gesampkunstwerk - total artwork ■ Combination of all the art forms into a single work ■ Only way to do this was by returning art to the people (volk) ○ Magnus opus - The Ring Cycle ■ Set of four operas Leitmotif - one of Wagner’s ideas ○ John Williams - Star Wars soundtrack First composer to write his own libretti ○ Eschewed common rhyme scheme for internal rhymes and alliteration to create a more flowing structure for the words, which Wagner called Strabeim ○ Some kind of flowing prose called “poetic musical period” Ideals amount to a total reinvention of opera The Ring Cycle (1848-1874) ○ Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) ○ Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) ○ Siegfried ○ Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods)...