rum-tum

Updated: June 21, 2025

Such brutal opacities of accompaniment as we find in Rossini's Stabat or Verdi's Trovatore, where the strings play a rum-tum accompaniment whilst the entire wind band blares away, fortissimo, in unison with the unfortunate singer, are never to be found in Wagner's work.

Bernard Shaw - The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring