tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post6560136119305451456..comments2024-03-05T10:14:38.181+00:00Comments on CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST: Schläfst du, Hagen, mein Sohn?Doundou Tchilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-16700137431150448312009-09-16T03:15:36.367+01:002009-09-16T03:15:36.367+01:00Nice. Your analysis, that is. Thoughtful, too.
My...Nice. Your analysis, that is. Thoughtful, too.<br /><br />My compliments.<br /><br />ACDA.C. Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090447201234367871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-13342387964754525562009-09-15T22:57:21.709+01:002009-09-15T22:57:21.709+01:00And crucially, of course, Hagen's musical figu...And crucially, of course, Hagen's musical figure is that of the tritone: both the diabolus in musica and the gateway to atonality. It frequently and successfully undercuts other, diatonic figures, perhaps most savagely of all in the enforced merriment of the ceremonies for the 'wrong' marriages, those of Gunther and Brünnhilde, and Siegfried and Gutrune, both of which Hagen has brought about. As Adorno, noted, in Wagner's music, 'all the energy is on the side of the dissonance.' Like Mephistopheles, though, Hagen can only negate, for he has never learned to love, and therefore to live. This curse he has inherited from his father, who sired him only in order to win the ring.Mark Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693194967620507933noreply@blogger.com