id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 7834 Hight, George Ainslie Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama .txt text/plain 55610 2848 70 go far beyond the limits of music and dramatic art, and to enter different elements, words, acting, music, in a natural relation to one expression, gesture, poetry, and music are all arts of movement in has led to a false and unnatural form of art; in the drama music can words as forming a basis for musical expression is to place one of work of art, the rest of Wagner's doctrine follows directly. music does reveal the nature of things in a way different from words [Music: _Tristan und Isolde_, ACT III. A work of art like _Tristan und Isolde_ can never be understood Wagner's view of the relation of music to words has been the subject Wagner himself insists that music can never express a musical hearer of a work like _Tristan und Isolde_ will expression, not of the Tristan drama alone, but of all music since ./cache/7834.txt ./txt/7834.txt