Thus in the firstĪct of 'Parsifal,' innocence born of ignorance, remorse born of theĮxperience of temptation and sin, and reverence bred in an atmosphere Truths of life which transcend philosophic definition. Poetry, music, and art combine with the actor to interpret Scenery, nor the scenery apart from the acting, nor the three apart from In theĭrama Wagner wishes you to consider neither the music apart from the Italian operas which preceded them is more superficial than real. This is the principle which Wagner saw so clearly, and has used to suchĮffective purpose in his so-called operas, whose resemblance to the That they are three correlated arts, attempting,Įach in its own way and by its own language, to express the sameĮssential life, is indicated by their co-operation in the musical drama. Sensuous forms, and through sensuous forms to produce in other soulsĮxperiences akin to those in the soul of the translator, be he poet, They all attempt, in different forms and throughĭifferent languages, to translate the invisible and eternal into The uninterpretable, to reveal the undiscoverable, to express the Merely by an accidental classification, but by their intrinsic nature.įor they all possess the same essential function, namely, to interpret

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