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This jack-fool twaddle about there being not a single phrase in an opera which has not grown out of another is manifestly absurd for out of what does the first one grow? and utterly untrue. In every scene of Tristan an enormous amount of new material is added; it is the richest thematically of all the operas.
Join me, my friend, and I will show you the heart of the world." "Look," said Jules Thessaly, "below you stretches the Capital of the greatest empire man has ever known." They stood in the topmost gallery of the campanile looking down upon a miniature London. The viridescent ribbon of the Thames bound bridge to bridge running thematically through a symphony of grey and green and gold.
By that I mean they weren't to be included in that genre art which comes from abroad, but is not based on any locality and is universal in its appeal thematically speaking. Your Paris pictures were, of course, pictures in the best sense to those who see art as color and composition and idea, but to the ordinary lay mind they were, I take it, merely Paris scenes. You get what I mean.
This last overture received the distinction of publication at Paris, by Schott et Cie. It is built on the rousing air of "Hail, Columbia!" This is suggested in the slow minor introduction; the air itself is indicated thematically as one of the subjects later appearing in full swing in a coda. The instrumentation is brilliant and the climax overwhelming.
Thematically this is much richer than the spring-song in, for instance, the Valkyrie, and for the best of reasons that in the Valkyrie is incidental, part of a long duet woven from quite other material, while that in the Mastersingers is itself the material of a large portion of the opera.
The different movements of the symphony are, however, not thematically related, save that the coda of the last movement is a reminiscence of the auxiliary theme of the first movement. The andante, in which the 'cellos are very lyrical, is a tender and musing mood. The presto is flashing with life and has a trio of rollicking, even whooping, jubilation.
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