"Parlante" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its effect almost unaided—when, in fact, to write deliberately pathetic music in the older style would be to overdo things. Sieglinda's phrases are simple, many of them exquisite, most of them designed to be sung parlando, rather spoken than really sung. Bathos is avoided: the deepest depths of genuine pathos are touched. In fact the technique of the scene is that of parts, only parts, of the previous act. But with Bruennhilda's announcement to Sieglinda we get the great lyrical Wagner, we get the germ of the ...
— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman |
