HMU126H1 Final: Listening List and Stylistic Features HMU 126
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Main theme gradually receives more complex orchestral accompaniment. Fourth movement a symphonic chaconne (a baroque form) It appears in different voices, rhythms, and variations. Constantly varies theme through figuration and registral placement, giving each variation distinctive type of material in the other voices. Developing variation (unfolds into an entire piece: symphonic poem no. Meant as a psychological study of the title character: tristan und isolde: prelude and conclusion of act i, richard wagner. Depicts the will of two lovers and how their passion can only be resolved in death. Tristan brings isolde on a ship to marry his uncle. Isolde is secretly in love with tristan but he has offended her. Good at magic, she makes a drink that will kill the both of them. She summons tristan offers him a drink of atonement (claiming that by drinking it, she will forgive him). Her companion brangane, substitutes it for a love potion.
