digitacao no violino de meditation from thais

The piece opens with a short introduction by the harps, with the solo violin quickly entering with the motif. Massenet may also have written the piece with religious intentions the tempo marking is Andante religioso, signifying his intention that it should be played religiously (which could mean either strictly in the tempo or literally with religiously-founded emotion) and at walking tempo, or around 60 BPM. The piece is in D major and is approximately five to six minutes long.

He noted that the themes have already been heard Rodney Milnes identifies that the music 'derives both from Athanaël's erotic visions and part of his hymn'. In the second scene of Act II, following the Méditation, Thaïs tells Athanaël that she let him take her to a cloister near the desert.Įrnest Newman commented that the 'solo is almost invariably made far more sickly than it need be or should be', continuing 'What concern of is dramatic psychology ?', and that the piece sometimes becomes 'not merely saccharine but maudlin'. It is during a time of reflection following the encounter that the Méditation occurs. In the first scene of Act II, Athanaël, a Cenobite monk, confronts Thaïs, a beautiful and hedonistic courtesan and devotée of Venus, and attempts to persuade her to leave her life of luxury and pleasure and find salvation through God. The Méditation is an instrumental entr'acte performed between the scenes of Act II in the opera Thaïs a wordless chorus joins in for the last reprise. Problems playing this file? See media help.

Digitacao no violino de meditation from thais