Document Type

Thesis

Date of Degree Completion

Summer 1973

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Music

Committee Chair

John DeMerchant

Second Committee Member

Herbert A. Bird

Third Committee Member

Henry J. Eickhoff

Abstract

This paper presents a structural comparison of traditional opera and music drama. It uses Wagner's criticism of traditional opera, and his plan of incorporating the individual arts into a unified art form, to contrast the two forms. An identification of motives from a section of Wagner's Die Walkure further demonstrates the unifying factors in music drama.

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