Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung ("Der Ring des Nibelungen") /

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Exploring Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung = Der Ring des Nibelungen / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Exploring Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung = Der Ring des Nibelungen / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Wagner's Ring cycle and the Greeks / by Foster, Daniel H., 1967-

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Der kleine Wagnerianer : zehn Lektionen für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene / by Lauer, Enrik, Müller, Regine, 1962-

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Wagner beyond good and evil / by Deathridge, John

Table of Contents: “…A few beginnings -- Der Ring des Nibelungen -- The elusiveness of tragedy -- Tristan und Isolde -- Mature polemics -- Operatic futures.…”
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Beyond reason : Wagner contra Nietzsche / by Berger, Karol, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: beyond autonomy -- The secret of music-dramatic form: music drama as opera -- Der Ring des Nibelungen: the anarchist utopia -- Tristan und Isolde: the erotic utopia -- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: politics after Tristan -- Parsifal: ethics after Tristan -- Epilogue: Wagner contra Nietzsche.…”
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Treasure in Literature and Culture. by Emig, Rainer

Table of Contents: “…Marcin Stawiarski -- Treasure and the Desire to Know: Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Anthony Burgess's The Worm and the RingCarl Plasa -- "The Object of His Craving": Loss and Compensation in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon -- Oliver Lindner -- Broken Future, Broken Narrative: Risk and the Threatened Treasure of the Environment in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) and Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood (2009); Ellen Grünkemeier -- Antiretroviral AIDS Medication in South(ern) Africa -- a Treasure?…”
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Consciousness : confessions of a romantic reductionist / by Koch, Christof, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…In which I introduce the ancient mind-body problem, explain why I am on a quest to use reason and empirical inquiry to solve it, acquaint you with Francis Crick, explain how he relates to this quest, make a confession, and end on a sad note -- In which I write about the wellsprings of my inner conflict between religion and reason, why I grew up wanting to be a scientist, why I wear a lapel pin of Professor Calculus, and how I acquired a second mentor late in life -- In which I explain why consciousness challenges the scientific view of the world, how consciousness can be investigated empirically with both feet firmly planted on the ground, why animals share consciousness with humans, and why self-consciousness is not as important as many people think it is -- In which you hear tales of scientist-magicians that make you look but not see, how they track the footprints of consciousness by peering into your skull, why you don't see with your eyes, and why attention and consciousness are not the same -- In which you learn from neurologists and neurosurgeons that some neurons care a great deal about celebrities, that cutting the cerebral cortex in two does not reduce consciousness by half, that color is leached from the world by the loss of a small cortical region, and that the destruction of a sugar cube-sized chunk of brain stem or thalamic tissue leaves you undead -- In which I defend two propositions that my younger self found nonsense--you are unaware of most of the things that go on in your head, and zombie agents control much of your life, even though you confidently believe that you are in charge -- In which I throw caution to the wind, bring up free will, Der ring des Nibelungen, and what physics says about determinism, explain the impoverished ability of your mind to choose, show that your will lags behind your brain's decision, and that freedom is just another word for feeling -- In which I argue that consciousness is a fundamental property of complex things, rhapsodize about integrated information theory, how it explains many puzzling facts about consciousness and provides a blueprint for building sentient machines -- In which I outline an electromagnetic gadget to measure consciousness, describe efforts to harness the power of genetic engineering to track consciousness in mice, and find myself building cortical observatories -- In which I muse about final matters considered off-limits to polite scientific discourse: to wit, the relationship between science and religion, the existence of God, whether this God can intervene in the universe, the death of my mentor, and my recent tribulations.…”
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Quest for the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner / by Brown, H. M.

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"Music's obedient daughter" : the opera libretto from source to score /

Table of Contents: “…: Classical Parody and Burlesque in Orphée aux enfers by Crémieux, Halévy and Offenbach -- Burning the Heretics and Saving Don Carlos: Méry's, Du Locle's and Verdi's Don Carlos -- Tracing Wotan's Incendiary Past: The Evolution of Storms and Fire in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Manon at the Opera: From Prévost's Manon Lescaut to Auber's Manon Lescaut and Massenet's Manon -- "Closed, Efficient, Terrible!"…”
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Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen : the dramaturgy of disavowal / by Levin, David J., 1960-

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"Was deutsch und echt ..." : Richard Wagner and the articulation of a German opera, 1798-1876 / by Kooten, Kasper van, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…3 The ""Universally German"" in the Zürich Writings and the Conception of Der Ring des Nibelungen4 ""Vollendet das ewige Werk!"" Bayreuth as a Unification Festival; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index…”
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Masterworks of the orchestral repertoire : a guide for listeners / by Ferguson, Donald N. 1882-1985

Table of Contents: “…Richard Wagner (1813-1883) : Overture to Die Feen (The Fairies) ; Overture to Rienzi ; Overture to The Flying Dutchman ; Overture and Bacchanale from Tannhauser ; Prelude to Lohengrin ; Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde ; Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg overture ; Prelude to Act III, Dance of the Apprentices, and Procession of the Mastersingers ; Excerpts and arrangements from Der Ring des Nibelungen Entrance of the Gods into Walhalla, from Das Rheingold ; The Ride of the Valkyries, and the Magic Fire Scene and Wotan's Farewell, from Die Walkure ; Waldweben (Forest Murmurs), from Siegfried ; Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Funeral March, and Brunnhilde's Immolation and Closing scene, from Die Gotterdammerung ; Parsifal : Prelude ; Good Friday Spell. …”
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