Chapter 22 No.22

Now let us consider the music of the Rhinegold.

Already the discrepancy of styles has been referred to. The Rhinegold, coming between Lohengrin and Tristan, suffers from an odd sort of pettiness of phrase-a pettiness which in all probability we should not feel if we did not judge it by Tristan. The wide sweep of the tide of music that we find in