Wagner Leitmotifs | 13 Dawning Day : Tristan und Isolde @wagnerleitmotifs7654 | Uploaded August 2013 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
This leitmotif is first heard in the prelude to act 2.
This motif is heard at the start of the prelude to act 2, it represents day coming upon the world and destroying night. The ideas of day and night are very important in the opera, as the lovers feel their love can only exist in the night, and must be perpetuated by the eternal night of death, this Day is their enemy.
This motif appears in act 3 in a speeded up version as Tristan curses the day which can only be quenched by Isolde's coming.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
None
Related Leitmotifs:
Hero's Call: youtu.be/bnCqv2hndmQ
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Insolent Day: youtu.be/xxSWyFnfarw
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This video is designed for the purpose of teaching the viewer about the leitmotifs in Wagner's Operas, where they appear and how the work. This clearly comes under the umbrella of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
This leitmotif is first heard in the prelude to act 2.
This motif is heard at the start of the prelude to act 2, it represents day coming upon the world and destroying night. The ideas of day and night are very important in the opera, as the lovers feel their love can only exist in the night, and must be perpetuated by the eternal night of death, this Day is their enemy.
This motif appears in act 3 in a speeded up version as Tristan curses the day which can only be quenched by Isolde's coming.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
None
Related Leitmotifs:
Hero's Call: youtu.be/bnCqv2hndmQ
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Insolent Day: youtu.be/xxSWyFnfarw
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.
This video is designed for the purpose of teaching the viewer about the leitmotifs in Wagner's Operas, where they appear and how the work. This clearly comes under the umbrella of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
