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Politics and Music: Class Meetings
Professor Courtney Brown
Meeting #3: Wagner and the Politicization of Beethoven
LECTURE NOTES
SELECTIONS played in class:
(By Wagner, from The Ring)
Wotan's Rage
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Ride of the Valkyries
(Lyrics by Sting, music by Sergei Prokofiev)
Russians
POINTS: Note how music can have a profound political association. This
association can be made explicit, as Sting does in Russians. But
it can also use allegory and symbolism to promote political and social
commentary, as Wagner does in The Ring.
QUESTIONS: How overtly political was Wagner? How did he attempt to create
music that conveyed political ideas? Did Wagner use music in an associational
or representational fashion to promote his viewpoints? How do we know
that Wagner had explicit political views that can find parallelisms in
his music? What evidence do we have of his political viewpoints?
EXTRA: See some of The Ring!