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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 21 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7189 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 73 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Wagner 10 Tristan 9 work 9 Beethoven 8 music 8 german 7 Paris 7 Lohengrin 7 King 7 Grail 6 time 6 Wotan 6 Liszt 5 art 5 Siegfried 5 Rienzi 5 Parsifal 5 Isolde 5 Bayreuth 4 Tannhäuser 4 Siegmund 4 Sachs 4 Richard 4 Elsa 4 Dutchman 4 Dresden 3 life 3 great 3 french 3 Zurich 3 Walther 3 Vienna 3 Strauss 3 Ring 3 Munich 3 Master 3 Goethe 3 God 3 Count 3 Brünnhilde 2 thing 2 straussian 2 love 2 like 2 italian 2 drama 2 Weber 2 Theatre 2 Tannhauser 2 Symphony Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1487 most 64 well 58 least 12 goethe 3 highest 2 hard 1 worst 1 poorest 1 lest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 www.gutenberg.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/1/3/18138/18138-h/18138-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/1/3/18138/18138-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/1/4/15141/15141-h/15141-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/1/4/15141/15141-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 _ see also 20 _ see _ 19 _ is _ 15 performance took place 15 wagner did not 15 wagner was not 13 wagner had not 9 music is not 9 work was not 8 beethoven did not 7 beethoven was not 6 one did not 6 one does not 6 one has only 5 art does not 5 art is not 5 music does not 5 wagner does not 4 _ does not 4 _ is not 4 life is not 4 life was not 4 love is not 4 one is conscious 4 thing is certain 4 time went on 4 wagner was only 3 act takes place 3 beethoven is not 3 day are not 3 drama is not 3 life is so 3 man does not 3 man is not 3 music is never 3 one is able 3 opera was first 3 people are not 3 people did not 3 song is not 3 time was so 3 time was very 3 tristan is not 3 wagner took up 3 wagner was fond 3 wagner was then 3 work does not 3 work had not 3 work is not 3 work is still Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 wagner had not yet 2 _ is not so 2 beethoven was not in 2 day are not christians 2 life is not merely 2 man is not necessarily 2 one does not invariably 2 one does not yet 2 one has no difficulty 2 one were not able 2 people are not always 2 time had not yet 2 wagner had no reason 2 wagner is not at 2 wagner makes no appeal 2 work had not yet 1 _ are not musical 1 _ does not yet 1 _ has no root 1 _ is not entirely 1 act is not so 1 art do not always 1 art is not creditable 1 beethoven was no match 1 beethoven was no sinecure 1 beethoven was not greatly 1 beethoven was not specially 1 day are not absolutely 1 day have not wholly 1 day is no less 1 day is no longer 1 drama are not essentially 1 drama has not yet 1 drama is no mere 1 drama is not christian 1 drama is not much 1 friend was no doubt 1 love has not yet 1 love is no doubt 1 love is not death 1 man had no consciousness 1 man was not easy 1 mind is no affair 1 mind is not yet 1 music does not even 1 music does not well 1 music gives no help 1 music had not actually 1 music has no airs 1 music has no charms A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 27265 author = Brownell, Gertrude Hall title = The Wagnerian Romances date = keywords = Alberich; Beckmesser; Brangaene; Brünnhilde; Elsa; Eva; Fafner; Fricka; God; Grail; Gunther; Gurnemanz; Hagen; Isolde; King; Knight; Loge; Mime; Nothung; Parsifal; Rhine; Ring; Sachs; Siegfried; Sieglinde; Siegmund; Tristan; Walhalla; Walther; Wotan; day; love summary = word does she utter about love,--but she brings his heart to a Wotan places the ring on his hand and stands "When the dark enemy of love shall in wrath beget a son, the end of "You followed, light of heart, the call of love," Wotan replies Wotan-sword alone an intrepid stupid boy, Siegfried, shall destroy long have I loved you, Siegfried!" He believes for a moment that dark enemy of Love shall in wrath beget a son, the end of the gods if she shall not accept the master-singers'' choice, Sachs knows So the offer stands: A lovely girl and a rich inheritance shall the world is life, is love, is joy, is a beautiful wish come true, all power of doubt my love shall stand!" He clasps her in his arms, comes home, and I am far away from him in life, you shall give id = 15141 author = Fischer, George Alexander title = Beethoven, a character study Together with Wagner''s indebtedness to Beethoven date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Bonn; Breuning; Count; Goethe; Haydn; Johann; Karl; Lichnowsky; Mass; Mozart; Napoleon; Prince; Schindler; Symphony; Vienna; Wagner; great; life; music; time; work; year summary = Beethoven were not in accord on the subject of musical composition, each Beethoven''s work however, shows intellectuality of the highest kind, and This Symphony was the best work which Beethoven had yet accomplished; a The year 1805 saw Beethoven hard at work in a field new to It is evident that Beethoven enjoyed working on the Mass, and was quite Another great work which was completed about this time was the Symphony Next in the order of Beethoven''s great works comes the Pastoral Beethoven''s music was frequently performed at Goethe''s house for the last ten years of his life says in relation to Beethoven''s love The year 1823 in which Beethoven practically completed his life-work Here is a work so interwoven into Beethoven''s very life and spirit, that The Beethoven biography was Thayer''s life-work, to which he The music consisted of two equali composed by Beethoven many years Haydn and Beethoven, life-work of, 20. id = 6443 author = Frost, William Henry title = The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas date = keywords = Daughter; Father; Fool; Gods; Grail; King; fire; knight summary = "''Come quickly,'' says the Father of the Gods, ''and let us get this the Father of the Gods is sure that the hero who knows no fear has come "The king does tell him a little of this story, when the hero asks him, away and to lead his bride before the King, where he will come and tell Knight of the Swan comes too, and he asks the King if he did right to "And won''t the knight come back at all?" asked the little girl. "Is he a knight?" asked the little girl, instinctively knowing him for "The young knight, who knows the goldsmith, tells him now that he wants He is thinking, I know, of the young knight and his song, black knight is such a big man and looks like such a good fighter that "While the old knight and the woman stand here, another comes toward id = 46982 author = Gautier, Judith title = Richard Wagner and His Poetical Work, from "Rienzi" to "Parsifal" date = keywords = Amfortas; Grail; Gurnemanz; Isolde; Kundry; Lucerne; Paris; Parsifal; Sachs; Tristan; Wagner; Walter; work summary = populace as a well-loved king; a mountain was climbed, a sail followed; works, which rise successively, one above the other, from the lovely faithfully keep to the law thou imposest upon me?" "Elsa, I love thee," Parsifal, my father, is King of the Grail, and I, his knight, am named lightning burst forth drops from his hand; youth, beauty, love are gone me," says Hunding to the unknown; "may my house be sacred to thee," not the free hero who should redeem thee, for thou hast guided him, now, youths," he cries, "the hour is come for attending upon the king; "Thy mother, from whom thou hast escaped," says Gurnemanz; "she weeps young, too innocent,--thy purity once stained, thou art mine." Kundry, At Kundry''s cries the young girls come forth from the palace. "Greeting, my guest," says Gurnemanz: "Dost thou not know what day this this forest, and salute thee again, thou good old man?" id = 47080 author = Gautier, Judith title = Wagner at Home date = keywords = Cosima; French; King; Lohengrin; Lucerne; Ludwig; Madam; Master; Meistersinger; Munich; Paris; Rheingold; Richard; Richter; Rienzi; Schnorr; Servais; Tribschen; Tristan; Villiers; Wagner; time summary = in order not to lose any time at the theatre," cries the Master, Wagner surprised me to-day, on the threshold of this little study, One day, having landed at Tribschen, as I reached the house, I heard following day, Wagner, as soon as he saw him in the distance, made a enthusiastic about Wagner, she has been for a long time devoted to his This reached such a point that Wagner, fearing for his royal friend, Villiers had promised Wagner to read him his one-act play _La Révolte_, Richard Wagner, while in Munich, had been for a long time the I received a letter from Tribschen in which Wagner said that he accordance with the King''s wishes, Wagner would himself go to Munich to Cosima told me that at one time in Munich she had received each day as "Wagner would not feel like it, I know him: under such circumstances id = 16840 author = Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title = Stories of the Wagner Opera date = keywords = Alberich; Brunhilde; Elsa; Grail; Holy; Mime; Rienzi; Siegfried; Sieglinde; Siegmund; Tannhäuser; Tristan; Wagner; Wotan; Ysolde summary = watch over the anchored vessel, singing of the maiden he loves ends by fervently praying that he may soon appear to put her love and of his release from the curse, but soon he begins to love prays that death may soon come to ease her pain and bring her sight, the Swan Knight announces to the king that he has come Blanchefleur, sister of King Mark of Cornwall, falls in love scenes of his happy youth; but Tristan sadly declares that life knight, approaching the maiden softly, declares his love in a beauty, and he soon falls madly in love with them, and makes of this statement, the gods soon behold a long train of dwarfs his curse after the gods, declaring the ring will ever bring the time came for her son Siegfried to come into the world. Next Brunhilde comes upon the scene, singing a song of vengeance; id = 44767 author = Henderson, W. J. (William James) title = Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work date = keywords = Bayreuth; Brünnhilde; Der; Die; Dresden; Dutchman; Elsa; Grail; Isolde; King; Leipsic; Liszt; Lohengrin; London; Mr.; Munich; New; Nibelungen; Paris; Parsifal; Richard; Rienzi; Ring; Sachs; Siegfried; Sigurd; Tannhäuser; Tristan; Wagner; Walther; Wolfram; Wotan; Zurich; drama; french; german; music; work summary = Wagner utilised them, surveyed the musical plan of each drama, and of important features of Wagner''s later works in this opera, but for music."[5] "I was then twenty-one years of age," wrote Wagner, two acts of the music which Wagner had finished. In "Opera and Drama" Wagner set forth the principles which, according The only musical work which Wagner did in the early years at opera singers to perform such a music drama as he was about to write. This in Wagner''s mind was a musical drama, in which But the early works of Wagner show his musical system in its Wagner''s ideal was a drama in which music should be the works of Wagner are dramas. both dramatic and musical contrast to the story, Wagner has followed of the music of Wagner''s most popular work. The last of the great music dramas of Richard Wagner began to id = 54426 author = Henderson, W. J. (William James) title = Modern Musical Drift date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Brangäne; Brünnhilde; Grail; Handel; Isolde; Liszt; Loge; Lucia; Mr.; Parsifal; Rheingold; Richard; Siegfried; Strauss; Tristan; Wagner; Wotan; art; italian; music; musical; work summary = Music, text, action, scenic form and color, all work together real first movement, "Die Walküre." Of this work the music is the musical thought in the whole second act of "Die Walküre," for, after words, although the modern art of music may fairly be said to have Strauss has shown that the principles of musical form which the the oratorio, and so again is the music drama of Wagner. the real key to the music of such a composer as Strauss. of music from pure beauty of form and development of melodic ideas song without words it is again moods and emotions that music must pointed to melodious music Wagner was frankly melodic, and that he endeavored to introduce into their music an Italianized Wagnerism is but our dreams," and to feel that this lovely art of music is a into the origin and nature of musical works. id = 7834 author = Hight, George Ainslie title = Wagner''s "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama date = keywords = Beethoven; Brangäne; England; Footnote; Greek; Isolde; Isot; King; Kurwenal; Marke; Tristan; Wagner; art; drama; english; german; italian; love; motive; music; scene; word; work summary = 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 id = 18138 author = Kobbé, Gustav title = The Loves of Great Composers date = keywords = Beethoven; Chopin; Clara; Cosima; Countess; Cécile; Felix; Liszt; Mozart; Princess; Schumann; Wagner summary = letters sent wife and son on their way to Paris, and the elder Mozart Some years after the composer''s death, Countess Therese death cherished the great composer in her heart; and of her love for Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Liszt, who knew Chopin, tells us that the composer evinced a decided meeting with the nine-year-old girl decided him--so early in her life The years which Liszt passed with the Princess at the Altenburg, and when Not so, however, Liszt or Wagner, for not since the time of years later, at another crisis in Wagner''s life, another being came to Cosima was not Wagner''s first love, nor even his first wife. seated, and Liszt, Frau Cosima and Siegfried Wagner were in their places one great woman, the daughter of Liszt and the wife of Wagner; and the What Cosima was to Wagner is best told in Liszt''s words, written to a id = 51710 author = Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title = Thoughts out of Season, Part I David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. date = keywords = Bayreuth; Beethoven; Christianity; Culture; David; God; Goethe; Master; Nietzsche; Philistine; Schopenhauer; Strauss; Wagner; art; german; great; life; like; music; straussian; thing; time; work summary = Then I feel like telling the German philosophers that if you, poor natural equality of men which Nietzsche combated all his life. like all men who are capable of very great love, Nietzsche lent the Nietzsche is writing about Wagner''s music, and he says: "The world Concerning Culture-Philistinism, David Strauss makes a double "Ever remember," says Strauss, "that thou art human, not merely a various forces of nature, or relations of life, which inspire man with This is the German language, by means of which men express themselves, for, like Wagner, they understand the art of deriving a more decisive It is the voice _of Wagner''s art_ which thus appeals to men. soul, there begins that period of the great man''s life over which as a side of the life and nature of all great Germans: he does not know the art of modern times, it is that it no longer speaks the language of id = 5652 author = Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title = Thoughts out of Season, Part I date = keywords = Bayreuth; Beethoven; Christianity; Culture; David; God; Goethe; Master; Nietzsche; Philistine; Schopenhauer; Strauss; Wagner; art; german; great; life; like; music; straussian; thing; time; work summary = Then I feel like telling the German philosophers that if you, poor natural equality of men which Nietzsche combated all his life. like all men who are capable of very great love, Nietzsche lent the Nietzsche is writing about Wagner''s music, and he says: "The world Concerning Culture-Philistinism, David Strauss makes a double "Ever remember," says Strauss, "that thou art human, not merely a various forces of nature, or relations of life, which inspire man with This is the German language, by means of which men express themselves, for, like Wagner, they understand the art of deriving a more decisive It is the voice of Wagner''s art which thus appeals to men. soul, there begins that period of the great man''s life over which as a side of the life and nature of all great Germans: he does not know the art of modern times, it is that it no longer speaks the language of id = 31526 author = Nohl, Ludwig title = Life of Wagner date = keywords = Baireuth; Beethoven; Dutchman; Flying; Grail; King; Lohengrin; Munich; Nibelungen; Paris; Parsifal; Tannhaeuser; Vienna; Wagner; art; german; time; work summary = LIFE OF WAGNER, From the German of Dr. LOUIS NOHL. essay on "Wagner''s Influence upon the National Art" has been adjudged nature, which, from primeval times, the German spirit has put into the mental activity of the time and the longing for a new world, which first time I fully comprehended the purely human nature of love," he Pamphlets--"Lohengrin" Performed--Wagner''s Musical Ideas Expressed Pamphlets--"Lohengrin" Performed--Wagner''s Musical Ideas Expressed 1862, the prize song of German life and art which enchants every true festival-building for a national art-work and thus realize his grand "German good-nature" that Wagner this time conquered the nations. "As artist and man, I am now approaching a new world," Wagner had first time in his life he fully secured the purely human happiness that in his art also he sought that life by which the ideal nature of floated before Wagner''s mind in his "combined art-work" and which id = 14441 author = Runciman, John F. title = Wagner date = keywords = Bayreuth; Brangaena; Brunnhilda; Dutchman; Isolda; Lohengrin; Siegmund; Tannhäuser; Tristan; Wagner; Wotan; music summary = the music was partly written; and in 1839 Wagner took one of the most for the first time the drama grows out of an idea and the music out of The _Dutchman_ must stand amongst Wagner''s great works. outside the theatre, and from that time forward Wagner and his music _Tannhäuser_ and Wagner''s succeeding operas for two reasons. A second reason for thoroughly knowing the drama of the later Wagner would have grown had the opera been written when Wagner was ten years opera-house, and everywhere triumphed, so that a few years later Wagner _Tristan_ was the first opera to be finished after Wagner had published are things sweet to man''s thought, so long will the music of Wagner''s There are four music-dramas, or operas (I use the terms There has been some of Wagner''s finest and freshest love-music, and one The music throughout the act is amongst Wagner''s noblest and most id = 16431 author = Runciman, John F. title = Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas date = keywords = Act; Bayreuth; Beethoven; Brünnhilda; Dresden; Dutchman; Elsa; Geyer; Isolda; Leipzig; Liszt; Lohengrin; Mastersingers; Meyerbeer; Paris; Richard; Rienzi; Ring; Sachs; Senta; Siegfried; Siegmund; Tannhäuser; Tristan; Valkyrie; Wagner; Walther; Weber; Wotan; german; music summary = Wagner, like Weber, wrote theatrical music for the theatre, whilst hint Wagner got from Meyerbeer we shall see when we examine the music. kind of thing when we come to the beginning of Wagner''s riper work, Tannhäuser''s music grows in intensity, and Wagner is careful time afterwards he played some of his music to Wagner, who found it dream is not dramatic as Wagner, by the time he wrote his next work, Wagner the songs are "absolute" music: the words were his own, and he Wagner was at his best when writing about music or about musicians he is Wagner''s most perfect work, is the finest opera in the world. means believe even Wagner capable of writing a three-act music-drama Wagner''s only opera in which music and drama had birth simultaneously So far as Wagner could he let music and drama grow up _Tannhäuser_ onward Wagner showed in the music of his operas a id = 35128 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Wagner : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays date = keywords = Wagner; illustration summary = book blank pages upon which the child is to write his own story of the Wagner''s father died when he was only six months old, and the boy was There is Walter, who sings the Prize Song in Die Meistersinger, and Eva, there are in the operas by Richard Wagner, gods and goddesses, giants Here is a list of the operas by Richard Wagner, with their names Read these facts about Richard Wagner and try to write his story out of 1. Richard Wagner wrote operas. 6. As a boy Richard Wagner went to a classical school. Among the books that Richard Wagner read as a boy were the story of 1. What kind of music did Richard Wagner compose? 3. Can you name some of the musicians who lived when Richard Wagner was 5. In what opera by Richard Wagner is _The Prize Song_? id = 5144 author = Wagner, Richard title = My Life — Volume 2 date = keywords = Bulow; Count; Dresden; Duke; Frau; Grand; Herr; Herwegh; Karl; Karlsruhe; Liszt; Lohengrin; London; Meistersinger; Minna; Mme; Opera; Paris; Princess; Ritter; St.; Tannhauser; Theatre; Tristan; Venice; Vienna; Weimar; Wesendonck; Zurich; french; german summary = twelve consecutive evenings to our Zurich friends, Herwegh stayed away, a good deal of each other in my early Dresden days, and he soon felt at long and pleasant visit of our amiable and charming young friend. following day my Zurich friends arrived. the Grand Duke of Baden, Liszt had arranged and conducted a musical at work at my music, I felt the longing to express myself in poetry. About the time of my birthday I had a visit from my old friend on a visit to her friends in Saxony after her cure, time would some days in my friends'' house, where I saw my old Zurich acquaintances September, when I went for a three days'' visit to my friends in Zurich. the time my concerts were being given, and upon whom my friend know, I only heard that my old friend several times addressed him, to id = 5197 author = Wagner, Richard title = My Life — Volume 1 date = keywords = Bakunin; Beethoven; Berlin; Brockhaus; Count; Devrient; Dresden; Fliegender; Friedrich; Hall; Herr; Hiller; Hollander; Holtei; King; Konigsberg; Laube; Leipzig; Liszt; Lohengrin; Luttichau; Magdeburg; Meyerbeer; Minna; Opera; Paris; Prague; Rienzi; Riga; Rockel; Saxony; Schlesinger; Schroder; Spontini; Symphony; Tannhauser; Theatre; Tichatschek; Weber; Zurich; french; german; time; work summary = For a long time the thought of leaving Saxony on another visit to time been secretly busy working out the great tragedy I had already conscious of living at a time in which such things took place could not Dorn, who was at that time musical director of the Leipzig theatre. the Leipzig theatre regarded me for a long time as a very doubtful impressions of musical and theatrical life, and for a long time Vienna Leipzig for the New Year, in order to get my opera accepted by the having been kept waiting for a long time--as a matter of fact they The journey from Paris to Dresden at that time took five days and As Schroder-Devrient soon left Dresden for a considerable time, the also in Dresden at this time, and was busy working out on opera, which