Music 1102A/B Lecture 23: Listening to music lecture 23
25 Apr 2018
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Texture: listen to the relationship between the voices and the orchestra. In the traditional opera, the orchestra supports the voice; in wagner"s operas, the two blend in a single unit. Word-music relationships: listen for the return of certain musical themes or fragments of themes and their relationship to whats being sung or acted on the stage. Libretto of wagner"s ring of the nibelungs draws from the northern european mythology. Wotan bids an emotional farewell to his daughter br nnhilde, who falls into a deep sleep and is encircled by re. Leitmotifs musical ideas connected dramatically to some person, event, or idea. Unstable music for an unstable character or element (character of loge and element of re) Other leitmotifs for wotan"s spear, sleep, the sword, and fate. Wagner emphasized dramatic integrity and intelligibility of text. Vocal writing tends toward syllabic, uid rhythm. Drama as deeds of music made visible .
