Chapter III: The Artist in Practice

I. THE EARLY MISCELLANEOUS WORKS 238

II. THE EARLIEST OPERAS 246

III. THE OPERAS OF THE SECOND PERIOD 257

IV. THE MATURE ARTIST:

1. THE "PHILOSOPHY" OF THE OPERAS 266

2. THE NEW STYLE OF THE "RING" 270

3. THE EARLY LEIT-MOTIVE 272

4. THE LEIT-MOTIVE IN THE "RING" 274

5. THE LATER CONDENSATION OF THE LEIT-MOTIVE 277

6. SINGULARITIES IN HIS USE OF THE LEIT-MOTIVE 282

7. THE VOICE AND THE ORCHESTRA 288

8. POETRY, DRAMA, AND MUSIC 292

9. THE PREGNANCY OF HIS THEMES 301

10. HIS POWER OF DRAMATIC CHARACTERISATION 302

11. THE PICTORIAL ELEMENT IN HIS MUSIC 307

12. SOME GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS STYLE 312

13. "PARSIFAL" 315

14. HIS LINEAGE AND POSTERITY 321