Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption
Autor Roger Scrutonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2021
Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from the sins that have polluted it. The Grail is a symbol of purity in a world of lust and power, but althoughParsifalis the culmination of Wagner's life-long obsession with the religious frame of mind, the redemption sought by his characters is far from the Christian archetype. For Wagner, redemption occurs inthislife, when compassion prevails over enslavement, and purity replaces spiritual pollution. His music here ties together suffering and contrition, sin and forgiveness, downfall and redemption in an inextricable knot, healing the fractures and uniting the warring elements in human life in a way that is clear, convincing and uncanny. More than any other of his works,Parsifalexpresses in music a depth of feeling for which we do not have words.
This short but penetrating book, by a writer who was uniquely both a leading philosopher and musicologist, shows us how Wagner achieves this profound work, explaining the story, its musical ideas, and their coming together into a sublime whole which gives us the musical equivalent of forgiveness and closure. There are few writers who can so enhance our understanding of one of the greatest works in western music.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141991665
ISBN-10: 0141991666
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141991666
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Sir
Roger
Scruton,
who
died
just
after
completing
this
book,
was
a
writer
and
philosopher
who
held
positions
at
the
universities
of
London,
Oxford,
Boston,
St
Andrews
and
Buckingham
and
who
wrote
widely
on
art,
architecture,
music
and
aesthetics.
His
books
include
his
now
classicShort
History
of
Modern
Philosophy(1981),The
Aesthetics
of
Music(1997),Death-Devoted
Heart:
Sex
and
the
Sacred
in
Wagner's
Tristan
and
Isolde(2004)
andThe
Ring
of
Truth:
The
Wisdom
of
Wagner's
Ring
of
the
Nibelung(2016).He
was
a
Fellow
of
the
British
Academy
and
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Literature.
Recenzii
In
his
weaving
of
philosophy
and
musicology
into
an
explication
of
redemption
via
the
vehicle
of
compassion,
this
is
an
unparalleled,
sadly
posthumously
published
offering.
It
is
at
once
required
reading
and
a
launch
pad
for
an
infinitude
of
musings.
It
is
also,
it
should
be
clearly
stated,
magisterial.
This is Roger Scruton's final book. Parsifal was Wagner's final opera. Both works are intended to be taken as Last Words: testaments of belief at the end of a long spiritual journey... you [will]find enormous satisfaction in following the journey of one of our great philosophers making sense of his own life though another's sublime work of art.
This is Roger Scruton's final book. Parsifal was Wagner's final opera. Both works are intended to be taken as Last Words: testaments of belief at the end of a long spiritual journey... you [will]find enormous satisfaction in following the journey of one of our great philosophers making sense of his own life though another's sublime work of art.