I Saw the World End by Deryck Cooke
Wagner's Ring is a great masterpiece. But because of the work's rich complexity it is difficult to think sensibly about its text and music. Deryck Cooke, author of The Language of Music and completer of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, displays his masterly common sense in this study of how and why The Ring took the shape it did. It is only a portion of the enormous book he had planned: his untimely death prevented his writing an analysis of the music. But it covers the first two operas of the cycle (Rheingold and The Valkyrie) and even as it stands gives a fresh understanding and appreciation to every lover of Wagner's music.-
Punishment and Modern Society
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Indirect Procedures
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The Language of Music
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Modern Music and After
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Shakespearean Negotiations
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Interpreting Northern Ireland
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British Writers of the Thirties
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Explaining and Understanding International Relations
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Victorian Feminists
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The Latin Love Poets from Catullus to Horace
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Homer on Life and Death
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Pro Caelio
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The Woman Reader 1837-1914
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The Operas of Verdi: Volume 2: From Il Trovatore to La Forza del destino
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New Testament Theology
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The Operas of Verdi: Volume 1: From Oberto to Rigoletto
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The Morality of Freedom
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Frogs
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The Mind Matters
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The Political Development of the British Isles 1100-1400
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Mozart's Symphonies
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The Making of Moral Theology
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Medieval English Prose for Women
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The First World War and International Politics
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The Creative Suffering of God
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Florence, Rome, and the Origins of the Renaissance
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The Gods in Epic
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The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas
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The Music of Chopin
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The Medieval Expansion of Europe
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The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England
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Portrait of Elgar
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Doing the Business
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The Piano: A History
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The Socialist System
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The Making of the National Poet
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The Vision Glorious
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The Thought of Thomas Aquinas
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The Music of Brahms
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The Medieval Crown of Aragon
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Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard
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Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology
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Mathematics without Numbers
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The Medieval Idea of Marriage
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The Operas of Verdi: Volume 3: From Don Carlos to Falstaff
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Town, City and Nation
An important contribution to Wagner studies* John Warrack, Times Literary Supplement *
The late Deryck Cooke, author of The Language of Music, completed Mahler's Tenth Symphony.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780193153189 |
| ISBN 10 | 0193153181 |
| Title | I Saw the World End |
| Author | Deryck Cooke |
| Series | Clarendon Paperbacks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1979-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |