Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries

Marked Lebhaft, which means lively. The opening bars set the scene, with accompaniment figures added layer by layer. Then the first main section (A) begins, a contrasting idea (B) enters, and A comes back. A third idea (C) appears. Then A and B come round again. The music is a chain of short ideas that keep returning, and that returning is what gives it its drive.

1. 0:02Introduction
2. A