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Deryck Cooke Composer
An Introduction to Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen"
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An Introduction to Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen"Year: 195?
- Of all great musical compositions... [Examples 1-4]
- The fundamental symbol... [Examples 5-11]
- Returning now to the Nature Motive... [Examples 6, 12-16]
- A number of further motives... [Examples 5, 17-21]
- A second, much smaller family... [Examples 22-25]
- So much for nature. [Examples 26-38]
- The cause of the deterioration... [Examples 39-44]
- The other transformation... [Examples 45-48]
- Several other motives... [Examples 49-52]
- Two further motives... [Examples 41, 53-61]
- The basic motive associated with the spear... [Examples 62-68]
- Along another, more complex line... [Examples 69-72]
- In Act Two of "Walküre"... [Examples 69, 73-75]
- Returning now to Act Two of "Walküre"... [Examples 76-79]
- Love is another of the central symbols... [Examples 80-83]
- Later in the same scene... [Examples 84-87]
- Freia's Motive has two independent segments... [Examples 88-91]
- The label 'Flight'... [Example 92]
- When Fasolt, in Scene Two of "Rhinegold"... [Examples 93-98]
- A little later in this interlude... [Examples 99-103]
- The other new motive... [Examples 104-109]
- There are several independent love-themes... [Examples 110-114]
- The characters in whose lives... [Examples 115-120]
- One further motive belongs... [Example 121]
- The Sword Motive occurs... [Examples 122-130]
- Ironically, this phrase... [Examples 131-135]
- Closely associated with Gutrune's Motive... [Examples 136-140]
- Here we come to the end... [Examples 141-146]
- Complementary to this symbol... [Examples 147-149]
- One last central symbol... [Examples 150-157]
- One further motive connected... [Examples 158-161]
- There are one or two motives... [Examples 162-168]
- These motives of Alberich and Mime... [Examples 169-171]
- Quite a number of the subsidiary motives... [Examples 172-176]
- Besides this family of motives... [Examples 177-180]
- Our final example... [Examples 10, 181, 182]
- In the final scene of "Götterdämmerung"... [Examples 181-183]
- Even more masterly... [Examples 184-188]
- Now if we return... [Examples 189-191]
- This masterly way... [Examples 192, 193]
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