tristan chord

It has become known as the Tristan chord.

Contains discussion of the Tristan chord as "androgynous".

"The Tristan Chord" should take its place among any Wagnerian's short list of required reading.

The Tristan chord's significance is in its move away from traditional tonal harmony, and even towards atonality.

For those who love Wagner, "The Tristan Chord" is quite simply indispensable.

"The Tristan Chord" begins, surprisingly enough, with a broad consideration of opera, its aesthetic and its history.

The Tristan Chord.

"The Tristan Chord" also has a long appendix examining the question of Wagner's anti-Semitism.

The move away from traditional tonality in opera had begun with Richard Wagner, and in particular the Tristan chord.

The notes of the Tristan chord are not unusual; they could be re-spelled to form a conventional half-diminished seventh chord.

The Tristan chord, a variant on the half-diminished chord, so named for its use in Wagner's Opera.

Much has been written about the Tristan chord's possible harmonic functions or voice leading (melodic function), and the motif has been interpreted in various ways.

Some music historians date the beginning of modern classical music to the first notes of Tristan, which include the so-called Tristan chord.

For instance, Schering (1935) traces the development of the Tristan chord through ten intermediate steps, beginning with the Phrygian cadence (iv6-V).

This is typified in Richard Wagner's music, especially Tristan und Isolde (the Tristan chord, for example).

The chord at the beginning of his opera Tristan and Isolde is so famous that it is known as the Tristan chord.

In the words of Robert Erickson, "The Tristan chord is, among other things, an identifiable sound, an entity beyond its functional qualities in a tonal organization."

The Brazilian conductor and composer Flavio Chamis wrote 'Tristan Blues', a composition based on the Tristan chord.

Flavio Chamis found an intriguing relation between the Tristan chord/resolution and the blues scale - much used in jazz - in which all have practically the same notes.

Often these may be analysed as extended chords (See: tertian, altered chord, secundal chord, quartal and quintal harmony and Tristan chord).

THE TRISTAN CHORD Wagner and Philosophy.

The very first chord in the piece, the Tristan chord, is of great significance in the move away from traditional tonal harmony as it resolves to another dissonant chord:

In fact, "The Tristan Chord" as a whole is an apology for Wagner's work, which might seem unnecessary in dealing with one of the most popular and frequently performed opera composers.

In "The Tristan Chord," Bryan Magee's second book on Wagner, he sets out to disentangle fact from fable in the myriad accounts of Wagner's relationship to the philosophical tradition.

After summarizing the above analyses Nattiez indicates that the context of the Tristan chord is A minor, and that analyses which say the key is E or E are "wrong".