Ring Motive Excerpt

Introduction

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Author


Martin S. Richter is the author of Orchestral Symbolism In Wagner's Das Rheingold, now available on Amazon.com!  Click here to purchase.  The author uncovers a revolutionary new layer of meaning concealed in the orchestration of Wagner's Ring.  Leitmotives have helped stage directors, conductors, and audiences

appreciate the work on a deeper level, but they are no longer the final word.  Richter presents compelling evidence that Wagner used orchestral scorings to embed a symbolic subtext that has been hidden for over a century!  

 

First published in 1980, the newly-revised edition includes groundbreaking evidence from prominent leitmotives, analyses of instrumental and vocal sections,
symbolic references, and shows how use of orchestral symbolism achieves a more sensitive and nuanced production of Das Rheingold.

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1982, 2012 by Martin S. Richter.

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