Teutonic Legends

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Excerpt from Teutonic Legends: In the Nibelungen Lied and the Nibelungen RingThe Nibelung legends as presented by Rich ard Wagner are treated in the Argument and Sources of the Nibelungen Ring. Brief com parison is there made of the drama with the epic and the sagas. This feature of the book must materially assist in making the reader fa miliar with the varying forms of the myths and of the proper names involved. It should be of service to all students of German legends, whether they aim primarily at Wagner's music or at German literature.Music cannot be fairly criticised or fully appreciated without taking into account its adaptation to the thought that it is designed to convey or impress. The operas of the Ring are the translations by a musical genius of the crude imaginings of an infant race into these harmonies which to a more advanced civilization express, if not the same ideas, at least the better development of the same themes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.