Order paperback of my "Ring" book for $40.00 in time for Bayreuth Festival

[alberich00]

Dear Visitors and Members of the www.wagnerheim.com discussion forum:

My recently published 614 page allegorical interpretation of Wagner's "Ring" entitled "The Wound That Will Never Heal" is at last affordable. You can order the paperback version of my book for $40.00 from my publisher Academica Press by going to orders@academicapress.com, or from other online booksellers like Amazon or Barnes & Noble for the same price. Order it now so you can study it prior to the Bayreuth Festival or other productions of Wagner's "Ring" this year of 2023.

My book contains something new about Wagner's "Ring" or its relationship to Wagner's 6 other iconic operas and music-dramas (from "Dutchman" to "Parsifal") on every page, and solves dozens of conundrums which have challenged Wagner scholarship for well over a century. Also, it's the only interpretation of the "Ring" in print which can make sense of the entirety of the "Ring" libretto and Wagner's employment of his musical motifs to enhance its meaning: virtually all others omit discussing significant portions of the "Ring" libretto and its music. What my book offers is a unified, allegorical vision of the "Ring" as a whole which places it in the context of Wagner's other operas and music dramas.

This paperback version has several advantages:

(1) It's much lighter than the hardback, so you can carry it into the opera house.

(2) It has incorporated my corrections to typos and a few more serious mistakes (like inadvertently getting the name of a character or the location of an incident wrong) which I discovered in the original hardback version which was published in 9/2021.

(3) But like the original hardback version, it contains the most comprehensive list of musical motifs in the "Ring" in the literature, 193 numbered motifs, which are embedded in the extensive passages I quoted from the libretto where they occur in the musical score. This comprehensive list of 193 numbered musical motifs can be found in the Motif Guide at the back end of my book. This includes detailed descriptions of each motif's allegorical/dramatic significance, and each one's musical notation, as well as the page number of my book at which each motif's first definitive occurrence can be found in the context of passages I've quoted from the libretto.

(4) Dr. Allen Dunning provided me with the musical notation for the 23 new motifs I added to his original list of 177 whose musical notation can be seen, and sound files heard, at www.wagnerheim.com. However, he didn't provide sound files. The great news is that a volunteer, a conductor of orchestras and lecturer on musicology, is now working with me to produce sound files which accurately reproduce the way my newly introduced motifs sound at their first occurrence. At the earliest opportunity I'll have these added to the 177 (minus the 6-7 motifs I omitted from Dunning's original list of 177) sound files at www.wagnerheim.com. However, this will be costly so I'm seeking financial help to have them added.

Your friend from www.wagnerheim.com,

Paul Brian Heise

[alberich00]

test 5/10/2023