blog: Wagnerbot
Submitted by lindsay on Thu, 20/12/2007 - 16:19.
We need about six bots in order to investigate the seven types of semantics, and for some reason, I am drawn back to Wagner.
Did this a long long time ago, about as long as the Ring, so coming back to it now reminds me.
Opera string. 782.1. KU has three reasonable texts which make a good start. More notes will follow. NAL has almost nothing. Opera not art. But the theatre collection is at V&A now too?
Meeting coming up with Pam Thompson over the nfip so this will be a good case to make.
Westminster
There is almost nothing in the National Art Library, which says something about the meaning of art in England, and with the theatre museum having been closed and re-integrated, I would have expected more. The staff in the library actually don't know whether the theatre library has been integrated.
Then by accident I find out that the Victoria Branch of Westminster Public Library is a specialist music library, and there are more than 400 hits on Wagner, Richard, but of course there is more than one RW. However at 789 there are about two shelves, and one book has a wonderful visualisation.
So now we have about six substantial texts which would be more than idle curiousity.
What has popped up and I didn't know about, is the 1890s society, and the stuff Beardsley did on Wagner. Given the exhibition at the Dulwich, this is a thread worth following.
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University
Kingston Upon Thames