Wagner Leitmotifs | 28 Impassioned Rapture : Tristan und Isolde @wagnerleitmotifs7654 | Uploaded August 2013 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
This leitmotif is first heard in act 2 scene 2.
This motif is a speeded up repeating version of the Rapture motif. It crashes through the Love Duet and Liebestod, representing a sudden welling up of emotion. Just as the pitch oscillates up and down, so too do the dynamics. This is particularly effective for 3 bars in the Liebestod, as Isolde is singing to this tune, she soars above the orchestra, then is overwhelmed but soars up again and again is overpowered, but again manages to crescendo up, vividly showing her wrestling with her emotions.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
Rapture: youtu.be/jkjQrvPlwzE
Related Leitmotifs:
None
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Ceaseless Longing: youtu.be/DpGnE2eW3Uw
Last Consolation: youtu.be/tD1XbYFeRRs
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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 act 2 scene 2.
This motif is a speeded up repeating version of the Rapture motif. It crashes through the Love Duet and Liebestod, representing a sudden welling up of emotion. Just as the pitch oscillates up and down, so too do the dynamics. This is particularly effective for 3 bars in the Liebestod, as Isolde is singing to this tune, she soars above the orchestra, then is overwhelmed but soars up again and again is overpowered, but again manages to crescendo up, vividly showing her wrestling with her emotions.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
Rapture: youtu.be/jkjQrvPlwzE
Related Leitmotifs:
None
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Ceaseless Longing: youtu.be/DpGnE2eW3Uw
Last Consolation: youtu.be/tD1XbYFeRRs
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.
