Tristan und Isolde

Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. The music is an oratorio composed of vocals from the SATB choir and solo artists and instruments of two trumpets, one timpani, two oboes, 2 violins, one viola and one basso continuo. Therefore, this is far more sophisticated than the previous three music as now we see different variations of choir and various instruments used. However, there are items common to all four of musicals mentioned. As for example in the tandoor music and Messiah chorus there is the use of string instruments; and the Dhrupad music and Georgian chanting it is religious and has significant religious importance. The music from Wagner is the music that accompanies the final scene of an opera, Tristan and Isolde called the Liebestod where two lovers, Tristan and Isolde commit suicide in love. The Dhrupad music, Georgian chant and Messiah chorus has laid the foundation of this opera. The chanting and oratorio helped to come up with the idea of singing as well as just the oratorio helped to come up with the idea of using multiple instruments to create variations of sound to accompany the singing. Bob Dylan’s song Like a Rolling Stone is about a aristocracy who become all alone and comes down from her high class. His record company hesitant to release the song because it was six minutes as during the time the normal duration of a song was three minutes; and its use of heavy electric sound. The song is considered a revolution because it was youthful, cynical and created…

The story of Tristan and Isolde remains an intriguing and influential legend because of its lesson about love: two people truly in love experience the greatest joys and sorrows. Various versions reflect the story in a light that illuminates the history of the time periods and the authors’ themes. Two works, Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde and Strassburg’s poem Tristan and Iseult, express unique differences. Because the Middle Ages were times of wonder, discovery, and the unknown, Strassburg…

Authors throughout history have utilized our senses to connect the reader to the characters in the novel in a symbiotic relationship. Without our connection and relatability, the impact of the struggles a character faces would not be the same on the reader. This is held true for Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. Chopin employs auditory allusions to foreshadow the fate of the protagonist Edna Pontellier. These small breadcrumbs of allusions placed throughout the novel lead us down the path of…

The Medieval Magic of Love In Gottfried Von Strassburg’s, Tristan, the paradoxical nature of love is established when we’re told that prudency inspires Queen Isolde to brew “a love drink so subtly devised and prepared, and endowed with such powers, that with whomever any man drank it…[t]hey would share one death and one life, one sorrow and one joy” (192). Using oxymorons Gottfried is able to show that love creates contradictory conditions that are difficult to resolve. Appearing almost magical…

Margaret’s influence on Arthuriana appears in multiple disciplines for the direct similarity between her reign and Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur. Stephen Knight and Merry Wiesner-Hanks’ Arthurian Literature and Society depicts the key similarities. Lancelot and his party represent the Yorkists, Henry VI played Arthur, and Guinevere, locked in a tower, represents Margaret as she defended herself from outside attack and dealt with her actual imprisonment. As the fifteenth century came…

American history is filled with ups and downs. First you have the settlement era where very clueless and scared individuals move across the world to live in a very unfamiliar place. Then you have the enlightenment era were people change up their philosophies and start to take more about nature and science. It continues all the way to the era we are currently in, postmodern era where we write more freely. American literate styles changes as time goes on. These styles change because of historical…

The periods between the 17th and the 19th century were a time of great change in which individuals pushed for reformation in particular aspects of society such as in politics, arts, literature, and ways of thinking. The development of these ideas originated in Europe but then progressed to other areas of the world like America. The 17th century marked the beginning of an era called the Enlightenment which paved the road for an era later known as Romanticism. During this time frame, writers such…

With the origins of Romanticism being what they are, it is no surprise that nature has such an immense influence in most romantic works. Nature has the undeniable effect of provoking emotions, whether they are good or bad. On the one hand, the natural world can be experienced as a calming spring day or breathtaking mountain view. On the other hand, it can also be an unstoppable avalanche or a destructive wildfire. It would definitely appeal to romantic writers that wanted to critique scientific…

Tragic love stories have fascinated humans since ancient times. They conquered the hearts of many and opened the ways for more love stories. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – to October 1400) is one of the most famous English authors of the middle ages. Chaucer is considered the father of English literature and thrilled the mass with his literary works. His most famous works include the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Yet, again a tragic love story that is still widely popular in the 21st…

Goethe wrote in modern-day Germany in the eighteenth century, a literary period known as “Sturm und Drang” (literally “Storm and Stress”). Knowing only the name of the period, one can easily guess the tone of his works. This applies to The Sorrows perhaps more than any of his other works. The protagonist falls in love with an already engaged woman, realizes he can never have her, and decides to kill himself. It’s no wonder why Frankenstein’s Creature has such a negative worldview! He says…