Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology (Eastman Studies in Music)

283 Pages·1998·1.67 MB·English

by  Stephen McClatchie

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title: Analyzing Wagner's Operas : Alfred Lorenz and German
Nationalist Ideology Eastman Studies in Music
author: McClatchie, Stephen.
publisher: University of Rochester
isbn10 | asin: 1580460232
print isbn13: 9781580460231
ebook isbn13: 9780585308982
language: English
subject Lorenz, Alfred Ottokar,--1868-1939, Wagner, Richard,--
1813-1883.--Operas, Musical form.
publication date: 1998
lcc: ML423.L637M33 1998eb
ddc: 782.1/092
subject: Lorenz, Alfred Ottokar,--1868-1939, Wagner, Richard,--
1813-1883.--Operas, Musical form.
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Analyzing Wagner's Operas

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Alfred Lorenz (18681939)

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Analyzing Wagner's Operas
Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology
Stephen McClatchie

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Copyright © 1998 Stephen McClatchie All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part
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First published 1998
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McClatchie, Stephen, 1965
Analyzing Wagner's operas : Alfred Lorenz and German nationalist
ideology / Stephen McClatchie.
p. cm.(Eastman studies in music)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 1-58046-023-2 (alk. paper)
1. Lorenz, Alfred Ottokar, 18681939. 2. Wagner, Richard,
18131883. Operas. 3. Musical form. I. Title. II. Series.
ML423.L637M33 1998
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Musical Examples vii
Preface ix
Chapter 1: Alfred Lorenz: The Discoverer of Wagnerian Form 1
1
Lorenz's Life and Work
15
Lorenz and National Socialism
Chapter 2: Aesthetics and Analysis of Form at the Turn of the Century 27
28
The Expressive Aesthetic
42
Musical Form and Analysis
58
The Problem of Wagner
Chapter 3: Lorenz's Aesthetics 67
67
The Work of Art and Its Form
75
The Leitmotive
80
The Gesamtkunstwerk
Chapter 4: Lorenz's Analytical Method: The Ring Analyses 87
88
The Three Elements of Form
89
Harmony and Tonality
98
Rhythm and Meter
100
Melody
108
Creation of Large-Scale Structure
119
Lorenz's Formal Types
119
Periods in Single Forms
119
Simple Forms: Strophic, Bogen, Rondo/Refrain, Bar
135
Potentiated Forms
142
Composite Forms
143
Periods in Successive Forms
146
Periods in Higher Forms
Chapter 5: The Development of Lorenz's Analytical Method 151
151
The Later Volumes
157
Evaluating Lorenz

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Chapter 6: The Reception of Lorenz's Analytical Method 173
173
Contemporary Reception in Germany
179
Post-War Reception in Germany
187
English-Language Reception: Lorenz as Artifact
Chapter 7: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology 197
Appendix 1: Lorenz's Formal Types 213
Appendix 2: Lorenz's Analysis of the Poetic Musical Periods of Der Ring des
Nibelungen 215
Bibliography 233
Index 257

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Figures
Alfred Lorenz, from Neue Wagner-Forschungen: Erste Folge, edited by Otto Strobel (Karlsruhe: G. Braun, 1943).
frontispiece
Figure 4.1
Lorenz's graph of the tonal structure of the Ring 95
Figure 4.2
Wk.I.P.12.A.b 121
Figure 4.3
Wk.I.P.12.C.b 123
Figure 4.4
Wk.I.P.12.A.a (principal section) 125
Figure 4.5
Sf.II.P.9 126
Figure 4.6
Sf.I.P.1 127
Figure 4.7a
Sf.II.P.1 128
Figure 4.7b
Sf.II. Rückleitung nach P.4-supporting Bogen to 6.a 128
Figure 4.8
Gd.I.P.8 129
Figure 4.9
Gd.I. Vorspiel zu P.12 136
Figure 4.10
Wk.I.P.12.C.a 137
Figure 4.11
The Rondo form comprising Sf.I.P.6, P.7, and Abrundung 138
Figure 4.12
The Über-Bar of the Todesverküdigung scene (Wk.II.P.1012) 141
Figure 4.13
Gd.III.P.9 144
Figure 4.14
Lorenz's higher forms 147
Figure 4.15
Sf.II.Waldweben 148
Figure 4.16
Siegfried, Act I 149
Figure 4.17
Das Rheingold 149
Musical Examples
Example 4.1
Götterdämmerung, Vorspiel, mm. 414418 104
Example 4.2a
Die Walküre III, mm. 907912 105
Example 4.2b
Die Walküre III, mm. 11991202 105
Example 4.3
Das Rheingold, mm. 918922 106
Example 4.4
Siegfried II 107
Example 4.5a
Wk.I.P.12.B.c. Strophe 1 (opening), mm. 12271230 122
Example 4.5b
Wk.I.P.12.B.c. Strophe 2 (opening), mm. 12411244 122
Example 4.6
Wk.II.P.10. I.Stollen, mm. 14621490 140

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