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The Ring

Introduction


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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.

the Rhine Journey as we approach the opening of T.1.1 on the shores of the Rhine at Gibichung Hall. I take the entire Rhine Journey to be Wagner’s metaphor for the collective history of art which, since the renaissance, had gradually been freeing itself from its religious affiliation and becoming more secular, branching out into the world of men without the protection or disadvantages of faith. This process culminated, according to Wagner’s own theory of history, in the Wagnerian music-drama, which will be figuratively represented in Siegfried’s narrative of the story of his life, explaining how he came to understand the meaning of Woodbirdsong, in T.3.2.