Wagner Leitmotifs | 4 Bacchanal : Tannhäuser @wagnerleitmotifs7654 | Uploaded July 2014 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
This leitmotif is first heard in the overture.
This series of motifs forms the music for the ballet in the overture representing the love orgy inside Venus' cave, even within this short passage of music, many of the motifs are repeated in different orders, and you can start to hear their development through the black sections.
The Bacchanal is a festival in celebration of the god Bacchus (or Dionysus), god of the grape, wine, and ritual madness and ecstasy. On stage, Sirens, nymphs, naiads, satyrs, and fauns are all moving about, chasing one another, and doing the sort of things you might expect on the mountain dwelling place of the goddess of love. This is represented in the music by the sprightly dotted rhythms, and the chromaticism gives the whole scene a magical shimmering feel.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
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Related Leitmotifs:
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Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Declaration of Love: youtu.be/XvadrKQzsIU
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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 overture.
This series of motifs forms the music for the ballet in the overture representing the love orgy inside Venus' cave, even within this short passage of music, many of the motifs are repeated in different orders, and you can start to hear their development through the black sections.
The Bacchanal is a festival in celebration of the god Bacchus (or Dionysus), god of the grape, wine, and ritual madness and ecstasy. On stage, Sirens, nymphs, naiads, satyrs, and fauns are all moving about, chasing one another, and doing the sort of things you might expect on the mountain dwelling place of the goddess of love. This is represented in the music by the sprightly dotted rhythms, and the chromaticism gives the whole scene a magical shimmering feel.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
None
Related Leitmotifs:
None
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Declaration of Love: youtu.be/XvadrKQzsIU
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.
