Album · 1995
An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Of All Great Musical Compositions... (Examples 1-4)
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3:37
2
The Fundamental Symbol... (Examples 5-11)
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4:47
3
Returning Now to the Nature Motive... (Examples 6, 12-16)
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3:22
4
A Number of Further Motives... (Examples 5, 17-21)
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3:18
5
A Second, Much Smaller Family... (Examples 22-25)
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2:36
6
So Much for Nature. (Examples 26-38)
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7:56
7
The Cause of the Deterioration... (Examples 39-44)
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3:31
8
The Other Transformation... (Examples 45-48)
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3:44
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Several Other Motives... (Examples 49-52)
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2:48
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Two Further Motives... (Examples 41, 53-61)
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7:13
11
The Basic Motive Associated With the Spear... (Examples 62-68)
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5:17
12
Along Another, More Complex Line... (Examples 69-72)
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2:12
13
In Act Two of "Walküre"... (Examples 69, 73-75)
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2:22
14
Returning Now to Act Two of "Walküre"... (Examples 76-79)
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3:55
15
Love Is Another of the Central Symbols... (Examples 80-83)
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3:06
16
Later in the Same Scene... (Examples 84-87)
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2:23
17
Freia's Motive Has Two Independent Segments... (Examples 88-91)
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2:02
18
The Label 'Flight'... (Example 92)
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0:57
19
When Fasolt, in Scene Two of "Rhinegold"... (Examples 93-98)
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5:24
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A Little Later in This Interlude... (Examples 99-103)
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3:08
Disc 2
1
The Other New Motive... (Examples 104-109)
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3:37
2
There Are Several Independent Love-Motives... (Examples 110-114)
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2:56
3
The Characters in Whose Lives... (Examples 115-120)
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5:28
4
One Further Motive Belongs... (Example 121)
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1:25
5
The Sword Motive Recurs... (Examples 122-130)
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4:28
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Ironically, This Phrase... (Examples 131-135)
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2:59
7
Closely Associated With Gutrune's Motive... (Examples 136-140)
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2:27
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Here We Come to the End... (Examples 141-146)
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3:44
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Complementary to This Symbol... (Examples 147-149)
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2:14
10
One Last Central Symbol... (Examples 150-157)
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4:54
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One Further Motive Connected... (Examples 158-161)
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2:53
12
There Are One or Two Motives... (Examples 162-168)
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3:48
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These Motives of Alberich and Mime... (Examples 169-171)
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2:08
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Quite a Number of the Subsidiary Motives... (Examples 172-176)
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2:51
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Besides This Family of Motives... (Examples 177-180)
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2:32
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Our Final Example... (Examples 10, 181, 182)
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3:57
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In the Final Scene of Götterdämmerung... (Examples 181-183)
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2:45
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Even More Masterly... (Examples 184-188)
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4:32
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Now If We Return... (Examples 189-191)
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2:48
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This Masterly Way... (Examples 192, 193)
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4:53
In print
First pressed 1969, still pressed 2024 — 14 pressings across 6 countries.