Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel
This guide follows Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel (1859) in one part (ternary form).
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The cellos open with a short, yearning , and the Tristan chord answers it without resolving. This desire music is the first . Next a new rising idea in the cellos, the 'glance' , begins the second-. The combines the glance and desire ideas and builds to the one overwhelming , which falls on the Tristan chord itself. In the the desire music , then the glance, and the dies away still unresolved.
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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