Wagner Studies

Steven Vande Moortele is Professor of Music at the University of Toronto. His books include Robert Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust (2020), The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner (2017), Two-Dimensional Sonata Form (2009), and (as co-editor) Formal Functions in Perspective (2015).

• List of figures; List of tables; List of music examples; List of contributors; Introduction: analyzing Wagner Steven Vande Moortele: Part I Orientations: 1. 'Wo sind wir?': Tristan Disorientations Arnold Whittall; 2. Bottoming for Wagner: listening, analysis and (gay-male) subjectivity Matthew Bribitzer-Stull; Part II. Form, Drama and Convention: 3. Wagner and the uses of convention? La solita forma from Die Feen through Lohengrin William M. Marvin; 4. Elsa, Ortrud, the grail and the forbidden question: formal functions and rotational form in Lohengrin Graham Hunt; 5. Scena, form and drama in act 1 of Die Walküre Steven Vande Moortele; Part III. Time, Texture and Tonality: 6. Time, sound and regression in Tristan und Isolde Tobias Janz; 7. Waltraute's plaint: Riemannian tonal function and dramatic narrative J. P. E. Harper-Scott and Oliver Chandler; 8. Wagner's Late Counterpoint Ariane Jeßulat; Part IV. Reception: 9. Silence and Gesture in Mahler's Ninth Symphony and Wagner's Parsifal Anna Stoll Knecht; 10. Wagner's early analysts Alexander Rehding; Bibliography; Index.