Richard Wagner for the New Millennium Essays in Music and Culture

by Bribitzer-Stull, Matthew; Lubet, Alex; Wagner, Gottfried

• ISBN13: 9781403973214
• ISBN10: 1403973210
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is the first truly interdisciplinary collection devoted to the legacy of Richard Wagner to merge insights from Musicology and Music Theory with explorations of the composer's vast socio-cultural impact from such fields as History, German, and Disability Studies. The wide ranging topics include Glenn Gould's piano transcriptions, the value of naming musical themes in the music dramas, the status of Wagner in Israel, and the assignment of "Jewish" characteristics in both Wagner's music and polemics and, in recent years, to his descendant, musicologist Gottfried Wagner. Contributors include Robert Gauldin, Warren Darcy, Marc Weiner, and Paul Rose.

Author Biography

Matthew Bribitzer-Stull is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota. He has published on Wagner and the chromatic music of the 19th century in Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, Music Analysis, Intégral, Journal of Musicological Research, and Journal of Schenkerian Studies. Alex Lubet is Morse Alumni/Graduate & Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, Jewish Studies, and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. His writings appear in such publications as Ethnomusicology, Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Essays in American Music since 1950, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, Disability Studies Quarterly and Sage Encyclopedia of Disability. He serves as Associate Editor of Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal. Gottfried Wagner is great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner and great-great grandson of composer-pianist Franz Liszt. Wagner works internationally as a multimedia lecturer, director, musicologist, and author.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Lingering Dissonances in Wagner Scholarship
Keynote Article	p. 1
On the Need to Debate Richard Wagner in an Open Society: How to Confront Wagner Today Beyond Glorification and Condemnation	p. 3
Wagner's Music	p. 25
Tracing Mathilde's A[superscript [flat]] Major	p. 27
Glenn Gould and Richard Wagner	p. 43
Subverting the Conventions of Number Opera from Within: Hierarchical and Associational Uses of Tonality in Act I of Der fliegende Hollander	p. 71
Naming Wagner's Themes	p. 91
In Search of C Major: Tonal Structure and Formal Design in Act III of Die Meistersinger	p. 111
Wagner and Society	p. 129
Lingering Discourses: Critics, Jews, and the Case of Gottfried Wagner	p. 131
Wagner's Emblematic Role: The Case of Holocaust Commemoration in Israel	p. 157
Richard Wagner and Disability Studies	p. 175
Anti-Semitism in Music: Wagner and the Origins of the Holocaust	p. 189
Index	p. 209
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