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currentmusicology-5035	Jenkins, Chadwick	A View From Death: Ariadne auf Naxos as Failed Totality	2004	27	.pdf	application/pdf	11400	536	61	Whereas in the 1912 version Hofmannsthal balanced scene i, focused on Ariadne, and scene ii, focused on the commedia, so as to create a sort of unity (the ironic equi­ poise achieved by having both groups interact) in scene iii, in the 1916 revi­ sion the Intermezzo serves as a comic adumbration of the heroic finale dem­ onstrating the ludicrous distance between the contrived nature of infidelity and the transcendental, authentic mode of being embodied by the ever­ faithful Ariadne. The work­ ing friendship of Hofmannsthal and Strauss was often vexed; if Ariadne can in some ways be seen to exemplify the virtues of mutual non-compre­ hension, then nowhere in real life was this virtue better enacted than within their difficult collaboration on this project.	cache/currentmusicology-5035.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5035.txt