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...previous lectures, Schrade called such music dramas only close forms of tragedy; he claimed that baroque opera consisted only of "tragic situations" and that Wagner did not depart from this practice...
Baroque opera laid the ground for all music drama that was to follow it, contended Leo Schrade at his fourth Norton lecture last night. The aim of all opera from then on was, he said, the declamation of human passion...
...Schrade also used fate as the criterion for determining the character of the tragedy which a musical drama conveys. Baroque opera, he said, held "not providence, not moira, but man himself" as the source of fate, for man lived, in their view, "under the sway of the demon of his passion...
...Schrade attacked Wagner for claiming to be the agent of fate and thereby "forsaking all that music as an art had ever been." He condemned Wagner for changing myth to fit his artistic purposes. The composer "even presumed to be a maker of myth" and turned his music dramas from the "true course of the sagas." Bayrouth was in his view a farce, and was not the semblance of Greek theatre...
...Schrade, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will deliver the fourth Charles Eliot Norton lecture for 1962-63 in Paine Hall tonight...