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Form and Forms in Wagner's Die Walkure = Form und Formen in Wagners "Walküre"
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Form and Forms in Wagner's Die Walkure = Form und Formen in Wagners "Walküre"
Yazar:
Bivens, Sam, author.
ISBN:
9780355974966
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1 electronic resource (283 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: William M. Marvin Committee members: Matthew BaileyShea; Robert Doran; Patrick McCreless.
Özet:
This dissertation presents three new approaches to understanding Wagnerian form using Die Walkure as a case study. The opening chapter sets the stage with a history of Wagnerian formal analysis; further literature review is divided among the individual chapters.
In Chapter Two I reach a more formalized understanding of the Wagnerian cadence and its role in delineating form. After a discussion of historical and contemporary views towards the cadence, I consider the "scenic cadence" (or SC), an obligatory musical goal that, according to Wagner's own theories, occurs precisely once each scene. I discuss the musical factors that determine the scenic cadence as well as methods of SC failure and SC deferral. Of special interest is the lack of such an SC in Act II, Scene 3. The chapter concludes with a look at the micro-form of the entire music drama.
Having clarified in the previous chapter the form-defining cadence in Die Walkure, I introduce in Chapter Three the manifold sentence, wherein Wagner opens up multiple rhetorical sentence spaces in order to delay the cadence. These top-heavy sentences, characterized by the grouping duration at the expected continuation, create mounting tension and have clear dramatic implications. Following an overview of recent work on the sentence, I present several examples of this small form, looking at their placement in larger contexts and considering some compositional precedents dating back to Haydn. I conclude with a look at the changes Wagner made to these forms between the Kompositionsskizze and the Partiturerstschrift.
Chapter Four deals with duration and proportion more explicitly and on a much larger scale than Chapter Three through a discussion of time--pitch isomorphisms. Two analytic vignettes, which combine to create a larger narrative for the end of Act II, show the promise of this approach. I consider the distinction between proportion in the musical score ("conceptual" time) and proportion in seconds ("observable" time), as well as possible compositional reasons for these structures, before concluding with a look at possible future avenues for this method.
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School code: 0188
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