I Saw the World End¶
Cooke. (1979). I Saw the World End: A Study of Wagner's Ring. Clarendon Press.
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- Leitmotif
- The pattern was systematised by Richard Wagner in the Ring cycle, where every principal character, object, idea, and relationship receives a distinctive orchestral motif whose entry into the texture cues the audience to read that referent into the current scene, and whose transformations across the tetralogy track narrative development — Siegfried's motif played in the minor at his death; the Curse motif inverted at its undoing
This sourceA study of the Ring's construction, left unfinished before its full musical analysis was written - it does not reach Gotterdammerung, so the death-transformation examples rest on other sources.
- The pattern was systematised by Richard Wagner in the Ring cycle, where every principal character, object, idea, and relationship receives a distinctive orchestral motif whose entry into the texture cues the audience to read that referent into the current scene, and whose transformations across the tetralogy track narrative development — Siegfried's motif played in the minor at his death; the Curse motif inverted at its undoing
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