Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Nights at the Opera) (Volume 3)
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Author(s)Wakeling Dry
ISBN / ASIN1492881511
ISBN-139781492881513
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An excerpt from Chapter V. Music and Story - Side by Side:
IN the wonderful prelude which is heard before the rising of the curtain we have a foretaste of the emotional music which throbs and glows throughout the work. It is made up of seven motives, but one (which is divided into two phrases, the “Confession of Love and Desire") dominates the whole.
This second half (which, in the prelude, is a natural completion of the first) will be readily recognized under its many and varied forms in the drama. It is at once ineffably sad and intensely passionate.
As in the drama, Wagner makes a special point, in the music, of the glance which passes between the lovers, and by which they learn of the love which absorbs them before the drinking of the philtre.
IN the wonderful prelude which is heard before the rising of the curtain we have a foretaste of the emotional music which throbs and glows throughout the work. It is made up of seven motives, but one (which is divided into two phrases, the “Confession of Love and Desire") dominates the whole.
This second half (which, in the prelude, is a natural completion of the first) will be readily recognized under its many and varied forms in the drama. It is at once ineffably sad and intensely passionate.
As in the drama, Wagner makes a special point, in the music, of the glance which passes between the lovers, and by which they learn of the love which absorbs them before the drinking of the philtre.
