{"id":594,"date":"2015-06-04T02:11:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T02:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/musicx15xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&p=594"},"modified":"2015-10-10T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T07:00:24","slug":"liebestod","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-musicapp-medievaltomodern\/chapter\/liebestod\/","title":{"raw":"Liebestod","rendered":"Liebestod"},"content":{"raw":"This very brief Wikipedia article contains the original German text of the aria and an English translation. I'd definitely suggest listening to the aria with the translation in front of you. It's much more meaningful if you understand what's being sung.\r\n

Introduction<\/h2>\r\n\"Liebestod<\/span><\/b>\" ([\u02c8li\u02d0b\u0259s\u02ccto\u02d0t]<\/span> German for \"love death\") is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde<\/span><\/i> by Richard Wagner. When used as a literary term,liebestod<\/span><\/i> (from German Liebe<\/span><\/i>, love and Tod<\/span><\/i>, death) refers to the theme of erotic death or \"love death\" meaning the two lovers' consummation of their love in death or after death. Other two-sided examples include Pyramus and Thisbe<\/i>, Romeo and Juliet<\/i>, and to some degree Wuthering Heights<\/i>. One-sided examples are Porphyria's Lover<\/i> and The Sorrows of Young Werther<\/i>. The joint suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and lover Henriette Vogel\u00a0(de)<\/span> is often associated with the Liebestod<\/span><\/i> theme.\r\n\r\nThe aria is the climactic end of the opera as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body.\r\n

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\r\n\r\nMild und leise\r\nwie er l\u00e4chelt,\r\nwie das Auge\r\nhold er \u00f6ffnet\r\n\u2014seht ihr's, Freunde?\r\nSeht ihr's nicht?\r\nImmer lichter\r\nwie er leuchtet,\r\nstern-umstrahlet\r\nhoch sich hebt?\r\nSeht ihr's nicht?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nertrinken,\r\nversinken, \u2013\r\nunbewusst, \u2013\r\nh\u00f6chste Lust!<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nSoftly and gently\r\nhow he smiles,\r\nhow his eyes\r\nfondly open\r\n\u2014do you see, friends?\r\ndo you not see?\r\nhow he shines\r\never brighter.\r\nStar-haloed\r\nrising higher\r\nDo you not see?\r\n\r\n[...and ends...]<\/i>\r\n\r\nto drown,\r\nto founder \u2013\r\nunconscious \u2013\r\nutmost bliss!\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n ","rendered":"

This very brief Wikipedia article contains the original German text of the aria and an English translation. I’d definitely suggest listening to the aria with the translation in front of you. It’s much more meaningful if you understand what’s being sung.<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n

“Liebestod<\/span><\/b>” ([\u02c8li\u02d0b\u0259s\u02ccto\u02d0t]<\/span> German for “love death”) is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde<\/span><\/i> by Richard Wagner. When used as a literary term,liebestod<\/span><\/i> (from German Liebe<\/span><\/i>, love and Tod<\/span><\/i>, death) refers to the theme of erotic death or “love death” meaning the two lovers’ consummation of their love in death or after death. Other two-sided examples include Pyramus and Thisbe<\/i>, Romeo and Juliet<\/i>, and to some degree Wuthering Heights<\/i>. One-sided examples are Porphyria’s Lover<\/i> and The Sorrows of Young Werther<\/i>. The joint suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and lover Henriette Vogel\u00a0(de)<\/span> is often associated with the Liebestod<\/span><\/i> theme.<\/p>\n

The aria is the climactic end of the opera as Isolde sings over Tristan’s dead body.<\/p>\n

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Mild und leise
\nwie er l\u00e4chelt,
\nwie das Auge
\nhold er \u00f6ffnet
\n\u2014seht ihr’s, Freunde?
\nSeht ihr’s nicht?
\nImmer lichter
\nwie er leuchtet,
\nstern-umstrahlet
\nhoch sich hebt?
\nSeht ihr’s nicht?<\/p>\n

ertrinken,
\nversinken, \u2013
\nunbewusst, \u2013
\nh\u00f6chste Lust!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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Softly and gently
\nhow he smiles,
\nhow his eyes
\nfondly open
\n\u2014do you see, friends?
\ndo you not see?
\nhow he shines
\never brighter.
\nStar-haloed
\nrising higher
\nDo you not see?<\/p>\n

[…and ends…]<\/i><\/p>\n

to drown,
\nto founder \u2013
\nunconscious \u2013
\nutmost bliss!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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