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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.

• Shaw, George Bernard: The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring. Published by Time-Life Records, 1972. USA. Originally published in 1898.

• Spencer, Stewart: [WR] Wagner Remembered. Edited, Translated and Annotated by Stewart Spencer. Faber and Faber. London and New York, 2000. An anthology of reminiscences of Wagner ranging from his early childhood until his death in 1883, including conversations.

• Tanner, Michael: Wagner. Princeton University Press. NJ, 1996.

• Wagner, Cosima: [CD] Cosima Wagner's Diaries. In Two Volumes. Translated from German by Geoffrey Skelton. Ed. Martin Gregor-Dellin and Dietrich Mack. A Helen and Kurt Wolffbook. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch. New York and London, 1978. Written by Cosima from 1869 until 2/83.

• Wagner, Richard: Prose Writings

1. [BB] The Diary of Richard Wagner. 1865-1882 - The Brown Book. Translated from German by George Bird. Ed. by Joachim Bergfeld. Victor Gollanc Ltd. London, 1980.

2. [CWL] Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt. Translated from German by Francis Hueffer. Greenwood Press, Publishers. New York, 1969. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1897.

3. [ML] My Life. Translated from German by Andrew Gray. Ed. Mary Whittall. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, 1983. Wagner's autobiography covering the years 1813 (his birth) until 1864 (when he was sponsored by King Ludwig II of Bavaria.)

4. [RWMW] Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck. Translated from German by William Ashton Ellis. Vienna House. New York, 1972. Originally published in New York by Charles Scribner and Sons in 1905.

5. [PW] Richard Wagner's Prose Works. Eight Volumes. Second Edition.Translated from German by William Ashton Ellis. Reprinted by The Scholarly Press. St. Claire Shores, Michigan, 1972. Originally published by Kegan, Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co. Ltd., in London, 1895.

6. [SLRW] Selected Letters of Richard Wagner. Translated and edited by Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington. W.W. Norton & Company. New York and London, 1987. Operas and Music Drama