An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen

Tracklist

• CD 1: Examples 1-103
• 1
  Of All Great Musical Compositions... (Examples 1-4)
  3:37
• 2
  The Fundamental Symbol... (Examples 5-11)
  4:46
• 3
  Returning Now to the Nature Motive... (Examples 6, 12-16)
  3:22
• 4
  A Number of Further Motives... (Examples 5, 17-21)
  3:17
• 5
  A Second, Much Smaller Family... (Examples 22-25)
  2:35
• 6
  So Much for Nature. (Examples 26-38)
  7:56
• 7
  The Cause of the Deterioration... (Examples 39-44)
  3:30
• 8
  The Other Transformation... (Examples 45-48)
  3:44
• 9
  Several Other Motives... (Examples 49-52)
  2:47
• 10
  Two Further Motives... (Examples 41, 53-61)
  7:12
• 11
  The Basic Motive Associated With the Spear... (Examples 62-68)
  5:17
• 12
  Along Another, More Complex Line... (Examples 69-72)
  2:12
• 13
  In Act Two of "Walküre"... (Examples 69, 73-75)
  2:21
• 14
  Returning Now to Act Two of "Walküre"... (Examples 76-79)
  3:54
• 15
  Love Is Another of the Central Symbols... (Examples 80-83)
  3:06
• 16
  Later in the Same Scene... (Examples 84-87)
  2:22
• 17
  Freia's Motive Has Two Independent Segments... (Examples 88-91)
  2:01
• 18
  The Label 'Flight'... (Example 92)
  0:56
• 19
  When Fasolt, in Scene Two of "Rhinegold"... (Examples 93-98)
  5:23
• 20
  A Little Later in This Interlude... (Examples 99-103)
  3:07
• CD 2: Examples 104-193
• 1
  The Other New Motive... (Examples 104-109)
  3:36
• 2
  There Are Several Independent Love-Motives... (Examples 110-114)
  2:55
• 3
  The Characters in Whose Lives... (Examples 115-120)
  5:27
• 4
  One Further Motive Belongs... (Example 121)
  1:25
• 5
  The Sword Motive Recurs... (Examples 122-130)
  4:28
• 6
  Ironically, This Phrase... (Examples 131-135)
  2:58
• 7
  Closely Associated With Gutrune's Motive... (Examples 136-140)
  2:26
• 8
  Here We Come to the End... (Examples 141-146)
  3:43
• 9
  Complementary to This Symbol... (Examples 147-149)
  2:14
• 10
  One Last Central Symbol... (Examples 150-157)
  4:54
• 11
  One Further Motive Connected... (Examples 158-161)
  2:52
• 12
  There Are One or Two Motives... (Examples 162-168)
  3:48
• 13
  These Motives of Alberich and Mime... (Examples 169-171)
  2:07
• 14
  Quite a Number of the Subsidiary Motives... (Examples 172-176)
  2:50
• 15
  Besides This Family of Motives... (Examples 177-180)
  2:31
• 16
  Our Final Example... (Examples 10, 181, 182)
  3:57
• 17
  In the Final Scene of Götterdämmerung... (Examples 181-183)
  2:45
• 18
  Even More Masterly... (Examples 184-188)
  4:31
• 19
  Now If We Return... (Examples 189-191)
  2:47
• 20
  This Masterly Way... (Examples 192, 193)
  4:52

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Issues

• A
  An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen

  2x CD
  1995
• A
  An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen

  2x CD
  1995