Wagner in Context

David Trippett is Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. He is author of Wagner's Melodies (2013), is the recipient of the Lockwood and Einstein awards from the American Musicological Society, and has edited collected volumes on music in digital culture, and music and science.

• Part I. Place: 1. Paris Katharine Ellis; 2. Dresden Thomas S. Grey; 3. Zurich and Lucerne Chris Walton; 4. Italy Ellen Lockhart; 5. London Barry Millington; 6. Bayreuth as city: a wagnerian chronology Sven Friedrich; 7. America Leon Botstein; 8. Spain in the cosmos of Richard Wagner Dieter Borchmeyer; Part II. People: 9. Franz Liszt Joanne Cormac; 10. Nietzsche and Wagner: the logic of contradiction Federico Celestini; 11. Wagner, schopenhauer and the world as a phantasmagoria Robert Wicks; 12. Assessing wilhelmine schröder-devrient: influence, genre, and voice Anno Mungen; 13. Cosima wagner Eva Rieger; 14. The wagner family: rebellion, honour, aftermath John Deathridge; Part III. Politics, Ideas & Bodies: 15. National politics Tim Blanning; 16. Revolutionary politics Mark Berry; 17. World drama. Wagner's hegelian heritage Günter Zöller; 18. Towards an 'ideal' feminine Eva Rieger; 19. Health & wellness Holly Watkins; 20. Sexuality & social mores Barry Millington; 21. Sentient bodies David Trippett; 22. Racial theory George Williamson; Part IV. Life, Language & the Ancient World: 23. Wagner's finances Sven Friedrich; 24. Wagner's apprenticeship Anna Stoll Knecht; 25. Wagner's mendacious humanism: wagnerian rhetoric between nature and the human Kirsten Paige; 26. Declaiming wagner: between genesis and historical performance practice Martin Knust; 27. The german study of india and buddhism Douglas McGetchin; 28. Greek drama in its nineteenth-century reception Michael Ewans; Part V. Music & Performance: 29. Orchestration Edward Reeve; 30. Wagner and music analysis: Siegfried and the rhinemaidens Patrick McCreless; 31. The scene of grand opera Barbara Eichner; 32. Wagner on the move Charlotte Bentley; 33. Stage technology Gundula Kreuzer; 34. Historic staging (1876-1976) Patrick Carnegy; Part VI. Reception: 35. Regietheater in performance Clemens Risi; 36. Twentieth-century reception and anti-semitisim Pamela Potter; 37. Bayreuth as idea: chamberlain, wolzogen, hitler Udo Bermbach; 38. Performing wagner in israel: an affront or a tribute? Victor Nefkens; 39. Nineteenth-century music criticism Alexander Wilfing; 40. Wotan's stormtroopers and the total art machine: kittler's ring of the nibelung Geoffrey Winthrop-Young; 41. Sound recording Laura Tunbridge; 42. The wagnerian erotics of video game music Tim Summers; Further reading; Select bibliography; Index.

'Trippett has done an excellent job in assembling the volume … A rewarding read and an ambitious, serious and open-minded addition to the Wagner literature.' Hugo Shirley, Gramophone