Crossword clues for wagnerian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wagnerian \Wag*ne"ri*an\, a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer.
Wiktionary
a. of, or characteristic of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Wagner, or of his music n. 1 an admirer of Richard Wagner 2 a musician who plays Wagnerian music 3 an opera singer who specializes in Wagnerian roles
Usage examples of "wagnerian".
Barclay said in his speech, was like Emersonian optimism set to Wagnerian music.
Now it is probable that some of us will have been so talked by the more superstitious Bayreuth pilgrims into regarding Die Gotterdammerung as the mighty climax to a mighty epic, more Wagnerian than all the other three sections put together, as not to dare notice this startling atavism, especially if we find the trio-conjurations more exhilarating than the metaphysical discourses of Wotan in the three true music dramas of The Ring.
If I depart here for a brief space from my announced purpose not to analyze the music in the manner of the Wagnerian commentators, it will be only because the themes of the prelude are the most pregnant of those employed in the working out of the drama, because their specific significance in the purpose of the composer is plainly set forth by their association with scenes and words, and because they are most admirably fitted by structure and emotional content to express the things attributed to them.
Chapter XII "Tannhauser" Wagner and Greek ideals--Methods of Wagnerian study--The story of the opera--Poetical and musical contents of the overture--The bacchanale--The Tannhauser legend--The historical Tannhauser--The contest of minstrels in the Wartburg--Mediaeval ballads--Heroes and their charmers--Classical and other parallels--Caves of Venus-- The Horselberg in Thuringia--Dame Holda--The tale of Sir Adelbert.
I don't mean there was more than the usual body thrashing and hair-tossing and empassioned vocalizing from The Monkey-no, the drama was at the same Wagnerian pitch I was beginning to become accustomed to: it was the flow of feeling that was new and terrific.
Tristan and Isolde, unlike their Wagnerian namesakes, were cheerful, rea-sonably polite, and only seemed anxious to disassociate them-selves, as far as possible, from the old fart who was escorting them.
It had been Jill's idea to alternate, sentence by sentence, a Martian version and an English version-and Jubal admitted with warm pleasure that her gimmick puffed up a formal little speech as devoid of real content as a campaign promise into something as rollingly impressive as Wagnerian opera.
It had been Jill’s idea to alternate, sentence by sentence, a Martian version and an English version - and Jubal admitted with warm pleasure that her gimmick puffed up a formal little speech as devoid of real content as a campaign promise into something as rollingly impressive as Wagnerian opera.