Richard Wagner for the New Millennium

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Keynote Article

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. On the Need to Debate Richard Wagner in an Open Society: How to Confront Wagner Today Beyond Glorification and Condemnation

      • Gottfried Wagner

      Pages 3-24

3. Wagner’s Music

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Tracing Mathilde’s A♭ Major

      • Robert Gauldin

      Pages 27-42

   3. Glenn Gould and Richard Wagner

      • Timothy Maloney

      Pages 43-69

   4. Subverting the Conventions of Number Opera from Within: Hierarchical and Associational Uses of Tonality in Act I of Der fliegende Holländer

      • William Marvin

      Pages 71-90

   5. Naming Wagner’s Themes

      • Matthew Bribitzer-Stull

      Pages 91-110

   6. In Search of C Major: Tonal Structure and Formal Design in Act III of Die Meistersinger

      • Warren Darcy

      Pages 111-128

4. Wagner and Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Lingering Discourses: Critics, Jews, and the Case of Gottfried Wagner

      • Marc Weiner

      Pages 131-156

   3. Wagner’s Emblematic Role: The Case of Holocaust Commemoration in Israel

      • Na’ama Sheffi

      Pages 157-174

   4. Richard Wagner and Disability Studies

      • Alex Lubet

      Pages 175-188

   5. Anti-Semitism in Music: Wagner and the Origins of the Holocaust

      • Paul Lawrence Rose

      Pages 189-207

5. Back Matter

   Pages 209-216

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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. A central concern of this study is the relationship between Wagner the artist and Wagner the social phenomenon. Many of the essays within explore the most difficult yet most crucial issue in Wagner studies: the impact of the composer's problematic world view and complex personal life on his musical/dramatic creations.

• antisemitism
• commemoration
• culture
• design
• discourse
• drama
• essay
• Holocaust
• music
• opera
• rose
• Shoah
• society
• structure

'The promise is great: a 'dissonant' reading of Wagner's operas for the 'New' Millennium.This rich and varied account of Wagner as understood at the beginning of the 21st century summarizes and continues those powerful debates that so marked the close of the 20th century: the debate about Wagner and anti-Semitism leads now into an original reading of 'Wagner and disability'; studies examine 'Wagner and performance' from Glenn Gould to contemporary Israel; essays on the opera's structure and its meanings ask difficult questions for our time.A valuable addition to your Wagner library.' - Sander L. Gilman, Emory University

'This collection of essays offers ample evidence that our fascination with Wagner and his works continues unabated across the millennial divide, both in the popular and the scholarly realms.The papers in this collection focus primarily on Wagner's still disturbing anti-Semitism, and on crucial aspects of his formidable compositional technique associative musical themes, harmonic and tonal structure, and formal structure.Both cultural historians and musical scholars will find much of interest here.' - Patrick McCreless, Yale University

ALEX LUBERT is Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, Jewish Studies, and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA.

MATTHEW BRIBITZER-STULL is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota, USA.

GOTTFRIED WAGNER is great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner and great-great grandson of composer-pianist Franz Liszt. Dr. Wagner works internationally as a multimedia lecturer, director (stage, video, and radio), musicologist, and author.

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