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Title Page
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations for key references
Guide to abbreviations used in text
Allen Dunning's numbered Guide to the Ring's Musical Motifs
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The Ring

Introduction


References
Appendix I
Appendix I I

Key Colour Coding

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I would be grateful for donations of any size, small or large, to help defray the cost (1) of maintaining this website, (2) and to finance my past and present research which produced my book posted here, Volume One of "The Wound That Will Never Heal," and my forthcoming revision of Volume One (to be submitted for publication), and completion of Volume Two on Wagner's six other canonic operas and music-dramas. I sacrificed at least seven years of paid employment and incurred debts to complete this project, and am currently unemployed, so I thank you in advance for any financial help you can provide. Your friend, Paul Heise.

References

• Abbate, Carolyn: Unsung Voices. Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton University Press. Press. Princeton, NJ, 1991.

• Aeschylus (Anonymous?): Prometheus Bound. Translated by Paul Elmer More and Edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill Jr. Random House. New York, 1938.

• Borchmeyer, Dieter: Richard Wagner. Theory and Theatre. Clarendon Press. Oxford, 1991.

• Cooke, Deryck:

1. I Saw the World End. Oxford University Press. London. 1979.

2. Introduction to the Decca recording of Richard Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelung', a spoken commentary on the musical motifs of Wagner's Ring, with musical examples, in three volumes. 1976 (?)

• Darcy, Warren: Wagner's 'Das Rheingold.' Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press. Oxford, 1993.

• Donington, Robert: Wagner's 'Ring' and its Symbols. The Music and the Myth. Faber and Faber.London, 1963

• Dunning, Dr. Allen B: A Thematic Guide to the Musical Themes of Richard Wagner's 'Des Ring des Nibelungen' (formerly published on the internet)

• Feuerbach, Ludwig:

1. [TDI] Thoughts on Death and Immortality. Originally published in 1830. Translated by James A. Massey. University of California Press, 1980.

2. [EOC] The Essence of Christianity. Originally published in 1841. Translated by George Eliot [the novelist]. Harper Torchbooks. Harper and Row, Publishers. New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London, 1957

3. [PPF] The Principles of the Philosophy of the Future. Originally published in 1843. Translated by Manfred Vogel. Hackett Publishing Company, 1986.

4. [LER] Lectures on the Essence of Religion. Originally published in 1848. Based on a book published in the early 1840's entitled The Essence of Religion, which was intended to fill in some