MUSI 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Relative Key, Wolfram Von Eschenbach, Grotto
25 May 2016
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Married to supernatural guy and saved by a hunter. Compare senta"s perceived paleness and sickness to that of dutchman = the pale man . Her eyes : darting like burning coals in their sokets , fixed and inert . Her hair : beautifully plaited one minute and loose and wild the next . Skin : now pale, then sunburned and dark . Is she one with the dutchman? (completely on his side or in between?) She speaks in the flying dutchman"s voice as she cries his oath; she hears what satan hears, she knows what. Of course, she also sings the gentle music of redemption, in the relative major. (p. 470 albright) German music = primal; strophic ballad; folklore + sacred refrain. Community: senta is rooted in good german spirit of the north. But she wants to escape into world of dutchman. Music of senta same music as that associated with gretchen in wagner"s jettisoned faust.
