Wagner and Twain--King Arthur in the Late 1800s.

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Gottfried Semper : architect of the nineteenth century by Mallgrave, Harry Francis

Table of Contents: “…A New Start in Switzerland. Richard Wagner and the Munich "Episode" Prolegomena to a Theory of Style. …”


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After the great divide : modernism, mass culture, postmodernism by Huyssen, Andreas

Table of Contents: “…The vanishing other: mass culture: The hidden dialectic: avantgarde -technology -mass culture -- Adorno in reverse: from Hollywood to Richard Wagner -- Mass culture as woman: modernism's other -- Texts and contexts: The vamp and the machine: Fritz Lang's Metropolis -- Producing revolution: Heiner Mèuller's Mauser as a learning play -- The politics of identification: "Holocaust" and West German drama -- Memory, myth, and the dream of reason: Peter Weiss's Die èAsthetik der Widerstands -- Toward the postmodern: The cultural politics of pop -- The search for tradition: avantgarde and postmodernism in the 1970s -- Mapping the postmodern.…”


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Realism, naturalism, and symbolism : modes of thought and expression in Europe, 1848-1914

Table of Contents: “…The disenchantment of 1848 -- The pessimistic view -- Science, the new god -- The bourgeois world -- The realism of Flaubert -- Optimistic realism -- Russian realism -- Social realism -- Social realism and socialist realism -- The continuing march of science -- The book of despair -- Life in the raw -- The natural history of morality -- Naturalism and moralism -- Painting: the impressionists -- A critique of naturalism -- Human nature in politics -- The natural history of the soul -- The poet as seer -- The mystery of poetry -- A critique of symbolism -- Against the Grain -- The aesthetic ideal -- The decadence -- Some Wilde epigrams -- The influence of Richard Wagner -- Just before the war.…”


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Studies in seven arts by Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945

Table of Contents: “…Rodin -- The painting of the nineteenth century -- Gustave Moreau -- Watts -- Whistler -- Cathedrals -- The decay of craftsmanship in England -- Beethoven -- The ideas of Richard Wagner -- The problem of Richard Strauss -- Eleonora Duse -- A new art of the stage -- A symbolist farce -- Pantomime and the poetic drama -- The world as ballet -- Whistler at the Carfax Gallery -- The lesson of Millais -- Rembrandt -- Raphael -- On the purchase of a whistler for London -- From Stevens to Sargent -- English masters at the royal academy -- French pictures at the international exhibition -- Dutch pictures -- A decorator in Venice -- Henry De Groux -- Charles Conder -- A note on Augustus John.…”


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First nights at the opera by Kelly, Thomas Forrest

Table of Contents: “…. -- Giacomo Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots : Paris, February 29, 1836, 7:00 p.m. -- Richard Wagner, Das Rheingold : Bayreuth, August 13, 1876, 7:00 p.m. -- Giuseppe Verdi, Otello : Milan, February 5, 1887, 8:15 p.m.…”


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The great conductors by Schonberg, Harold C.

Table of Contents: “…The genus -- From Elias Salomon to divided leadership -- Bach and Handel -- Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven -- Orchestras, tuning and audiences -- The arrival of the stick -- Weber and Spontini -- François-Antoine Habeneck -- Hector Berlioz -- Mendelssohn and the German School -- Richard Wagner -- The scene in England -- Franz Liszt -- Hans von Bülow -- The Wagner School : Richter and others -- America and Theodore Thomas -- The big three in France -- Arthur Nikisch -- Karl Muck -- Gustav Mahler -- Richard Strauss -- Felix Weingartner -- The Italians and Toscanini -- Willem Mengelberg -- Wilhelm Furtwängler -- Bruno Walter -- Sir Thomas Beecham -- Serge Koussevitzky -- Leopold Stokowski -- Otto Klemperer and the German School -- The Modern French School -- From central Europe -- The foreign-born contingent in the United States -- Leonard Bernstein -- Present and future.…”


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Cosima Wagner : the lady of Bayreuth by Hilmes, Oliver

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Entartung by Nordau, Max Simon, 1849-1923

Table of Contents: “…. -- Psychologie des Mysticismus -- Die Präraphaeliten -- Die Symbolisten -- Der Tolstoismus -- Der Richard-Wagner-Dienst -- Parodieformen der Mystik -- Entartung. …”
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The world's great men of music by Brower, Harriette

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Foreword; The World's Great Men of Music; Palestrina; John Sebastian Bach; George Frederick Handel; Christoph Willibald Gluck; Josef Haydn; Wolfgang Mozart; Ludwig Van Beethoven; Carl Maria Von Weber; Franz Schubert; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; Robert Schumann; Frederic Chopin; Hector Berlioz; Franz Liszt; Giuseppe Verdi; Richard Wagner; César Franck; Johannes Brahms; Edward Grieg; Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky; Edward Macdowell; Claude Achille Debussy; Arturo Toscanini; Leopold Stokowski; Serge Koussevitzky; Also Available.…”
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Learning to Play Guitar. Episode 14, Finger Independence and Chord Theory.

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Contemporary portraits, fourth series by Harris, Frank, 1856-1931

Table of Contents: “…George Wyndham -- Memories of Richard Wagner -- Ivan Turgenief, a snapshot -- Charles Chaplin, and a visit to Sing-Sing -- John Tyndall -- Ernst Haeckel -- Grant Allen -- Leonard Merrick -- Herbert Trench -- Max, "the incomparable" -- Henri Matisse and Renoir, master painters -- H.L. …”


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Dream and Machine German Art-Romanticism to World War I

Table of Contents: “…Ludwig I (2:20) -- Subjects for Art: Nature, Landscape, and Children (7:18) -- New Dawn for Germany (2:23) -- Poetry of Painting (5:00) -- Famous Paintings (3:56) -- Art and Nationhood (3:05) -- Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (1:00) -- Art and Society in Transformation (3:27) -- Richard Wagner/Neuschwanstein Castle (6:24) -- German: Artistic Tradition and Rapid Growth (6:02) -- Avant-Garde Painters (4:17) -- WWI and Germany (2:46) -- Artist Franz Marc (3:26) -- Credits: 'Dream and Machine: German Art-Romanticism to World War I' (0:35)…”
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Stage fright : modernism, anti-theatricality, and drama by Puchner, Martin, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- The Invention of Theatricality -- Chapter 1 -- Richard Wagner: The Theatocracy of the Mime -- Part II -- The Modernist Closet Drama -- Chapter 2 -- Stéphane Mallarmé: The Theater in the Closet -- Chapter 3 -- James Joyce: Novel and Drama in Ulysses -- Chapter 4 -- Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Actsâ€? …”
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Dream and Machine : German Art-Romanticism to World War I

Table of Contents: “…Ludwig I (2:20) -- Subjects for Art: Nature, Landscape, and Children (7:18) -- New Dawn for Germany (2:23) -- Poetry of Painting (5:00) -- Famous Paintings (3:56) -- Art and Nationhood (3:05) -- Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (1:00) -- Art and Society in Transformation (3:27) -- Richard Wagner/Neuschwanstein Castle (6:24) -- German: Artistic Tradition and Rapid Growth (6:02) -- Avant-Garde Painters (4:17) -- WWI and Germany (2:46) -- Artist Franz Marc (3:26) -- Credits: 'Dream and Machine: German Art-Romanticism to World War I' (0:35)…”
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The total work of art : foundations, articulations, inspirations

Table of Contents: “…The Total Work of Art; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I -- Foundations; Chapter 1 -- The Play's the Thing; Chapter 2 -- From Gesamtkuntstwerk to Music Drama; Chapter 3 -- Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the Pursuit of Gesamtkunstwerk; Part II -- Articulations; Chapter 4 -- Epic Gesamtkunstwerk; Chapter 5 -- Gesamtkunstwerk, Gesaltung, and the Bauhaus Stage; Chapter 6 -- Exposing the Political Gesamtkunstwerk; Chapter 7 -- Reconciling the Three Graceful Hellenic Sisters -- Part III -- Inspirations; Chapter 8 -- The Translucent (Not: Transparent) Gesamtglaswerk.…”
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Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures : Essays in Philosophical Anthropology. by Sajda, Peter

Table of Contents: “…6 The Transformative Power of Art in ""Richard Wagner in Bayreuth -- 7 The ""Distraction"" of Contemporary Art according to Yves Michaud -- 8 Czechoslovakia after 1989 through Arendt's Eyes: From Pariahs to Strong Men -- 9 Notes on Phenomenology and Revolution -- 10 Performing the University -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects…”
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Balzac to Beckett ; center and circumference in French fiction. by Bersani, Leo

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Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe by Prange, Martine, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 2 Germanizing music and culture: Richard Wagner's 'Beethoven' essay; Chapter 3 Nietzsche's reception of Wagner's 'Beethoven' essay in the spirit of Weimar Classicism; Chapter 4 The Birth of Tragedy out of Nietzsche's concern for Wagner's 'Graecization'; Part II Dynamic interculturalism: De-Germanization and the 'Good European'; Chapter 5 Nietzsche's anti-Wagnerism in the light of his increasing cosmopolitanism.…”
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Sing faster the stagehands' Ring Cycle

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