The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. By Eric Chafe.
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Abstract
Eric Chafe's new book on Wagner's Tristan und Isolde sets out to achieve at least six goals: to establish more firmly the often cited connection between music and philosophy for Wagner; to show the opposition between tragedy and nature in Tristan; to show how Wagner focused on both the ‘ideal of romantic love with its metaphysical overtones and Schopenhauer's demythologizing of love in terms of desire and the biological instinct’ (p. 8); to demonstrate how Wagner's Tristan style matches both the Schopenhauerian and non-Schopenhauerian aspects of the drama; to demonstrate how Wagner's indebtedness to Schopenhauer was manifested in the musical language of the work itself; and, finally, to reveal the interrelatedness of facets of Tristan generally treated separately. By this last point, Chafe is referring to virtually every approach to the work: the Romantic aim of unifying philosophy and music; the origins of Wagner's interest in the metaphysical absolute; the influence of these preoccupations on the music; small- and large-scale musical analysis (harmonic, leitmotivic, periodic, structural, etc.); sketch interpretation; literary investigation; aesthetics; and so on. A central premiss of the book is that Tristan ‘is simultaneously both a culminating and a forward-looking work’ (p. 14).
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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