WAGNER'S "TRISTAN UND ISOLDE" AN ESSAY ON THE WAGNERIAN DRAMA
BY GEORGE AINSLIE HIGHT
PREFACE
CHAPTER I ON WAGNER CRITICISM
CHAPTER II WAGNER AS MAN
CHAPTER III Wagner's Theoretical Writings
CHAPTER IV THE ROOTS OF GERMAN MUSIC
CHAPTER V THE WAGNERIAN DRAMA AND ITS ANTECEDENTS
CHAPTER VI THE EARLIER VERSIONS OF THE TRISTAN MYTH
CHAPTER VII WAGNER'S CONCEPTION OF THE TRISTAN MYTHOS
CHAPTER VIII ON CERTAIN OBJECTIONS TO THE WAGNERIAN DRAMA
CHAPTER IX MUSIC AS AN ART OF EXPRESSION
CHAPTER X SOME REMARKS ON THE MUSICAL DICTION OF TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
CHAPTER XI OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC
CHAPTER XII OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC CONTINUED
CHAPTER XIII OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC CONTINUED
CHAPTER XIV CONCLUSION
Passing the visions, passing the night,
Passing, unloosing the hold of my comrade's hands,
Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of
my soul,
Victorious song, death's outlet song, yet varying, ever-altering
song,
As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling,
flooding the night,
Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet
again bursting with joy,
Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven,
As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses.
Walt Whitman.
