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Apr 22, 2005 21:39

First: the word "leitmotiv" was playing in my head this afternoon and I realized I had no idea what it meant, except that it was vaguely german-ish and related to art somehow. So I looked it up in the OED with the following result: "In the musical drama of Wagner and his imitators, a theme associated throughout the work with a particular person, ( Read more... )

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darkest_light April 23 2005, 12:31:29 UTC

Yeah, I adore death as well. Mostly because she's so cool and behaves in precisely the opposite manor you'd think she would.

eccentric_hat April 23 2005, 08:16:03 UTC

Wow, postcards are effective. I just this morning got an e-mail from Joyce the FP about the one I sent her. I should do this more often ;-).

I wrote a paper about a bit of Wagner sophomore year. It was very slow going because everything *could* be a leitmotif but since he changes them sometimes depending on what's happening, you can never be quite sure...