[IX. MUSIC AS AN ART OF EXPRESSION]
[X. SOME REMARKS ON THE MUSICAL DICTION OF "TRISTAN UND ISOLDE"]
[XI. OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC]
[XII. OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC CONTINUED]
[XIII. OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC CONTINUED]
[CHAPTER I]
ON WAGNER CRITICISM
A new work on Wagner requires some justification. It might be urged that, since the Meister has been dead for some decades and the violence of party feeling may be assumed to have somewhat abated, we are now in a position to form a sober estimate of his work, to review his aims, and judge of his measure of success.