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Feb. 17

DAY III

Schopenhauer and Wagner

0. Intro. Wagner as a composer who

is articulate
has a well defined world view
sets himself to convey it.

Wagner's audience. The ENORMOUS influence he had on all arts.
Edouard Schure (Rudolf Steiner). Theosophy, unity of all religions. Buddhism and Catholicism in Parsifal.

1. Wagner's language:

chromatic harmony
un-ending melody
leit-motives
fusion of all arts
symbolism and myth

Increasing the ambiguity of the system in order to show the deceiving appearance of the world of representations.

Third relationships
Enharmonic modulations.

Music as an image of the WILL itself. Parallel reality.

2. Analysis. The details of a chord-by-chord analysis.

Tristan und Isolde
1. Prelude to the first act.
2. from act 2.
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