Of what may be called leitmotivs there are only three, the Dutchman (i) and Senta (j), while a portion of the second (k) may be regarded as a third, for it is used by itself, independently. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
In the Dutchman two themes may be rightly described as leitmotivs; in Tannhaeuser not one theme may be rightly so described. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
Of what may be called leitmotivs there are only three, the ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
In the _Dutchman_ two themes may be rightly described as leitmotivs; in ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
That meant finding a visual equivalent for the "leitmotivs" or thematic strands of melody that Wagner wove in ever-shifting forms to compose the score of his epic music drama. ❋ Unknown (2010)
ENO Music Director Edward Gardner conducts what I first feared was a wayward orchestra; but the harder I listened, the more I realized that he was movingly eliciting the quintessential continuities of the score, the almost Wagnerian leitmotivs that are made explicit in the exemplary, just-published ENO Overture Opera Guide to "Eugene Onegin," ed. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)
With a bit of hesitation - and a bit of a joke - Moravec also said during the symposium that there are leitmotivs associated with each character, and with the letter itself. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2009)
Not sure what the connection is between bunnies and The Hostiles, but a cool use of leitmotivs there. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Memories of Earth is actually an elaborate scenario, a dazzling spiral of words built by using leitmotivs and recurrent images. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In a joint press release, Isdell's firm and the hoops organization said they'll devise and initiate marketing drives with specific leitmotivs--delivered via digital programming. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Others, such as canaries and warblers, create new song variants each season in much the same way that Wagner created thematic variations or leitmotivs during such operatic masterpieces as The Ring. ❋ Steven Johnson (2004)
Those who approached Parsifal and the Ring Cycle at the end of the nineteenth century studying ponderous 'thematic guides' and following the leitmotivs with their fingers were lawyers, doctors, businessmen, not always failed musicians or poets. ❋ Montale, Eugenio (1981)
There we find three leitmotivs: one intended by the power of association of ideas to evoke on the instant the vision of Montsalvat and the Grail; a second to recall the thought and emotion of Lohengrin the man; the third to remind us of the conditions which Lohengrin imposes on Elsa before he is willing to fight for her. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
When the same leitmotivs are largely employed throughout a long operatic work there must be a superficial, or, if I may say so, external, monotony in the character of the music. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
The sea music, therefore, based on Senta's ballad -- apart from the leitmotivs which that contains -- is of the very first importance. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
