The Tragic And The Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution Of Wagner's Tristan And Isolde
by Eric Thomas Chafe /
2005 / English / PDF
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Argues that Wagner's Tristan and Isolde is a musical and dramatic exposition of metaphysical ideas inspired by Schopenhauer. The book is a critical account of Tristan, in which the drama is shown to develop through the music.
