A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Description

Richard Wagner's Parsifal remains an inexhaustible yet highly controversial work. This "stage consecration festival play," as the composer described it, represents the culmination of his efforts to bring medieval myth and modern music together in a dynamic relationship. Wagner's engagement with religion--Buddhist as well as Christian--reaches a climax here, as he seeks through artistic means "to rescue the essence of religion by perceiving its mythical symbols . . . according to their figurative value, enabling us to see their profound, hidden truth through idealized representation." The contributors to this collection break fresh ground in exploring the text, the music, and the reception history of Parsifal. Wagner's borrowings-and departures-from the medieval sources of the Grail legend, Wolfram's Parzival and Chrétien's Perceval, are considered in detail, and the tensional relation of the work to Christianity is probed. New perspectives emerge that bear on the long genesis of the text and music, its affinities to Wagner's earlier works, particularly Tristan und Isolde, and the precise way in which the music was composed. Essays address the work's bold, modernistic musical language and its unprecedented soundscape involving hidden choruses and other unseen sources of sound. The turbulent, astonishing, and sometimes disturbing history of Parsifal performances from 1882 until 2004 is traced in vivid detail for the first time, demonstrating the abiding fascination exerted by this uniquely challenging work of art. Contributors: Mary A. Cicora, James M. McGlathery, Ulrike Kienzle, Warren Darcy, Roger Allen. William Kinderman and Katherine Syer teach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and often lead study seminars during the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany.

Download Uploading.com (Only these country please: US, DE, ES, UK, FR, RU, UA, IT, CA, NL, AT, CZ, GR, PL)
Click Here

Download Megaupload.com (Other countries)
Click Here
http://rapidshare.com/files/235025685/1571132376_Wagner_s_Parsifal.rar

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 2834
2. A Companion to the Works of Hartmann von Aue (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
3. A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
4. A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
5. A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
6. A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
7. A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
8. A Companion to the Works of Alfred Doblin (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
9. A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
10. A Companion to the Works of Stefan George (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
11. A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
12. A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
13. Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
14. Expressionist Film -- New Perspectives (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
15. Love and Death in Goethe: One and Double (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)
16. A Companion to German Realism, 1848-1900 (Studies in German Literature)