| A | B |
|---|
| Wagner wrote his music and librettos for operas based on | medieval Germanic legends and myths |
| Musical Dramas | not operas |
| Gesamtkunstwerk | universal artwork, All is fused in the arts-music, drama, dance, painting |
| Wagner's unending melody | continuous flow, not broken up by arias and recitatives, no applause, combine speech and aria |
| Brass heavy | 4 horns, 4 Wagner Tubas |
| Wagner Tuba | richer than the trombone and heavier than the horn for Wagner's musical dramas, with a bore narrow enough at one end to take a French horn mouthpiece and wide as a tenor tuba at the other end |
| Voices in Wagner's music | extremely powerful;Wagnerian soprano and Heroic tenor |
| Leitmotif | leading motives, recurrent musical ideas associated with a person, object, or thought in the drama |
| Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) | Act 1 concludes with a powerful love scene |
| 2 characters of Die Walkure | Siegmund and Sieglinde |
| Similar to word painting | Sword image |
| Stolen gold from Rhine maidens | made into ring |
| Ring can bestow | power on wearer |
| Wotan | King of the gods steals ring |
| Wotan has to give up | ring; fears wearer |
| Protected by daughters | Valkyries on horses who bear away dead bodies of bravest warriors |
| The Ride of the Valkyries | most famous |
| Kill da wabbit | Elmer Fudd |
| Act 1, Love Scene, Conclusion | Be Still! Let me listen to your voice. |
