Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, The Flying Dutchman (Opera)
13 Oct 2016
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Use of german folk like melodies and reminiscence motifs. Brought (cid:498)music of the future(cid:499) to the theatre. Art as the uniting of all forms of expressions: the gesamtkunstwerk leitmotif and its development central to his style. Subjects come from germanic tradition, including mythology, folk epics, history uses stabreim style of old german poetry. Use german history as a source of inspiration. A new type of theatre for a new type of opera. Settled on town of bayreuth to build his new festspeilhaus. An auditorium in the shape of an amphitheatre. Assistance from patron made first performance of the ring there possible. Wanted orchestra to be entirely invisible to audience. Wanted all of our attention focused on the drama. Different of leitmotif-evolve change harmonically, motions helps story. Single melody line,sounds like love, really dark scary, tragic, never get together. Chromatic on the beginning, also minor 3rd,tristan hero is completely tonal. Film scores are built entirely on this concept of leitmotif.
