In Richard Wagner's Trison and Isolde, he uses some amazing devices in order to create a scene, tone, feeling, emotion. There are no words to the overture but the themes are clearly recognizable. He keeps the key ambiguous and has a dual tonic complex happening where you wonder if you are in A or C. The Confession of Love and Desire motifs are overlapped and then sequenced using chromatically. The Desire motif is reiterated again, again and again, then just when you think we will firmly cadence in A, it deceptively resolves to a VI and modulates to CM. He quickly moves through keys in a stepwise relationship and once you get to EM you realize that you have moved by chromatic medients to get where you are. You never cadence. You never find the tonality although you know it's there. It's aloof and fleeting. The resolutions aren't what you would expect. Tonality is fickle.
Oh so many parallels to love.
Also, devotional was super awesome today. ;)
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