Rienzi Overture, WWV 49
This guide follows Wagner’s Rienzi Overture, WWV 49 (1840) in one part (sonata form).
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A slow opens with a single trumpet call, the call that Act III later reveals as the war call of the Colonna family. Strings take up a noble melody and the winds repeat it. This is the tune that in Act V as Rienzi's prayer. The trumpet sounds again, and then the fast starts. The and the follow, and the drives towards the military .
- : trumpet call
- : m1 strings
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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