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Wagner's Das Rheingold

Pages: 270

Contributors:

Publisher: Oxford University

Place of Publication: Oxford

Publication Year: 1996

Subjects: Wagner, Richard,--1813-1883--Ring Des Nibelungen--Rheingold

Table of Contents

Title Page

Editor's Preface

Author's Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

Structural Outline of Das Rheingold

1: Preliminaries

2: The Documentary Sources

3: The Forging of the Text

4: Analytical Positions

5: The Opera as a Whole

6: Creatio Ex Nihilo: The Prelude

7: Scene One

8: First Transformation and Scene Two

9: Second Transformation and Scene Three

10: Third Transformation and Scene Four

II: Summary and Conclusion

Appendix Transcriptions from Wagner's Complete Draft

Works Cited

Index

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