02128nam 2200409 450 991015464380332120210111163208.00-19-182236-1(CKB)3710000000733576(StDuBDS)EDZ0001492414(MiAaPQ)EBC4717495(EXLCZ)99371000000073357620160222d2016 fy| 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe quest for the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner /Hilda Meldrum Brown[electronic resource]First edition.Oxford :Oxford University Press,2016.1 online resource illustrations (black and white, and colour)This edition previously issued in print: 2016.0-19-932543-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the nature of the quest -- The landscape garden -- Romantic drama and the visual arts -- Goethe's Faust: Gesamtkunstwerk or Universaltheater? -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theoretical approaches -- Moment and Motiv: critical approaches to the Ring cycle -- Analysis of the Erda scenes -- Adolphe Appia: a watershed in the evolution of the Gesamtkunstwerk -- Wieland Wagner: the Appia heritage and the Gesamtkunstwerk -- The centenary Ring: deconstruction and the Gesamtkunstwerk.This study examines the nature of the interdisciplinary procedures implicit in 'Gesamtkunstwerk' and suggests a critical methodology to illuminate the processes and techniques which Richard Wagner used as a bridge between dramatic text and music, thus creating a unique fusion of the major elements that constitute the 'total work of art'.Criticism, interpretation, etc.fast782.1092Brown H. M(Hilda Meldrum),1222836StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910154643803321The quest for the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner2836784UNINA