. Programme . upon our lives was beaming, Siegfried must be our youthful heros name. For him and thee in tones I now am praising; What thanks for deeds of love could better be?Within our souls the grateful song upraising Which in this music I have now set free?And in the cadence I have held, united, Siegfried, our dearly cherished son, and thee;And all the harmonies I now am bringingBut speak the thought which in my heart is ringing. , ■-■-: - iaimuVsusblsJfiD !^ || _ The composition, which first bore the title Triebschener idyll, is scored for flute, oboe, two clarinets, trumpet, two horns, b
. Programme . upon our lives was beaming, Siegfried must be our youthful heros name. For him and thee in tones I now am praising; What thanks for deeds of love could better be?Within our souls the grateful song upraising Which in this music I have now set free?And in the cadence I have held, united, Siegfried, our dearly cherished son, and thee;And all the harmonies I now am bringingBut speak the thought which in my heart is ringing. , ■-■-: - iaimuVsusblsJfiD !^ || _ The composition, which first bore the title Triebschener idyll, is scored for flute, oboe, two clarinets, trumpet, two horns, bassoon, and strings. It begins quietly E major, 4-4 (strings without double-basses), with a short introduction made out of portions of the so-called Frie- densmelodie, which is soon announced by the strings, the theme ^ I MANUFACTURERS FURRIERS fiETAfLEfiS RELIABLE FURS RELIABLE INFORMATION RELIABLE PRICES NO MISREPRESENTATIONAS TO VALUES COLD STORAGE 72 Chauncy St., Boston Tel. Beach 48 172. 173 from the love scene in the third act of Siegfried, at Briinnhildeswords, I have been forever, I am forever, ever in sweet yearningecstasy—but ever to thy salvation! The development is wholly in-dependent of that in the music-drama. The wood-wind instrumentsgradually enter. The flute introduces as an opposing theme a phraseof the slumber motive in the last scene of The Valkyrie. Thisphrase is continued by oboe and clarinet. There is a theme appears in the basses, and reaches a piu forte. A short theme of two descl&nding notes—generally a minor seventhor major sixth, taken from Briinnhildes cry, O Siegfried! Sieg-fried ! see my terror! from the same love scene in Siegfried—appears now in the basses, now in the violins, while wind instru-ments give out chords in triplets. This short theme is much usedthroughout the Idyl. The cradle song, Sleep, my little one, sleep, is sung verysimply by the oboe. All these themes are worked up in various shapes until
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