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The current study carries further the research initiated in another article published in 2010, entitled Mathematical models for analysing diatonic modes. This research naturally completes the other by the supplementary approach of the chromatic musical modes. Only one of the two analysis models presented then will be selected, the latter one. The former model employed in the previous study does not display any applicability when it comes to chromatic modes. The latter model, which was initially applied only to dia...

By the total work of art (gesamtkunstwerk) Wagner brings the myth back into focus by illud tempus hoping that in doing so he will re-sacralise the present time and space. Within the framework of the myths he approaches, the present paper deals with the feminine characters whose role is decisive in the unfolding of the Wagnerian drama. Every female character fits a conventional typologies, the present study bringing into question more than twenty such characters. Far from proposing a rigid typology, this analysis o...