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WCT 22-26 March
RightSaidJames:
Until reading this thread, I had no idea that the Wagner opera (Tristan und Isolde) was based upon Arthurian legend, despite the fact that at least 50% of my essays seem to involve Wagner and or Tristan in one way or another. I'm such a bad music student.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: RightSaidJames on 29 Mar 2010, 17:53 ---Until reading this thread, I had no idea that the Wagner opera (Tristan und Isolde) was based upon Arthurian legend, despite the fact that at least 50% of my essays seem to involve Wagner and or Tristan in one way or another. I'm such a music student.
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Fixed.
raoullefere:
Actually, the Drystan (Tristan. what have you) legend is a Celtic (Welsh or Cornish) tale that got bundled into the Arthurian stuff by Thomas Malory. It can be and is, as I recall, told in Wagner's version (which came to him by way of a medieval German scholar, Gottfried von Strassburg, who predates Malory by a couple of centuries) without mention of Arthur.
http://www.celtnet.org.uk/gods_d/drystan.html
Carl-E:
And here I thought you were punning on cold medicine...
Dristan for your cold...
RightSaidJames:
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--- Quote from: RightSaidJames on 29 Mar 2010, 17:53 ---Until reading this thread, I had no idea that the Wagner opera (Tristan und Isolde) was based upon Arthurian legend, despite the fact that at least 50% of my essays seem to involve Wagner and or Tristan in one way or another. I'm such a music student.
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Fixed.
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Well played :D
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