MUSIC 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Leitmotif, Magic Fire, Drinking Horn
20 Jan 2016
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The performance: preparations, preparations (cont. ) over germany. Wagner hand-picked the singers and instrumentalists from all. Vocal roles are demanding, both to project over the orchestra and to sing onstage for a long time; originally the same singer was expected to sing wotan for the entire cycle assistants, conductors, copyists, and rehearsal pianists. Wagner also assembled a team of design experts, musical. Richard fricke, working as a kind of stage director, left a diary describing the preparations. Wagner often took charge in rehearsals and demonstrated his conception of how singers should act. Vast orchestra of 125 players; orchestra included six harps, eight horns, and unusual instruments such as the steerhorn and. Wagner specified that the orchestra should support the singers without overpowering them: wagnerian leitmotifs. The sword leitmotif in act 1 of the valkyrie is associated at several points with actions involving the sword; thereafter, its appearance in the orchestra signals the sword to the audience.
