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The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.(Book review)

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The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. By Eric Chafe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. [viii, 330 p. ISBN-10: 0195176472; ISBN-13: 9780195176476. $60.] Bibliographical references, music examples, index.

The early years of the new millennium (if one takes the millennium as beginning in 2000 rather than 2001) witnessed a flurry of books that take on the much-discussed but always slippery topic of the relationship between Wagner's Tristan and Schopenhauer's philosophy. First was The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (New York: Henry Holt, 2000). by the British historian of philosophy Bryan Magee. Although the ...

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