thanks to the tons and tons of dissonance (e.g., "the Tristan chord," which we’ll discuss later) he loaded it with, starting right from the first note in the prelude. People lost their minds ...

Wagner's 'Tristan' Chord We'll hear the world-famous Tristan Chord... in its natural habitat: the prelude to Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde.Mariss Jansons (YAHN-sohns) leads the Oslo ...

‘Tristan und Isolde” is about longing for something you never reach. The consummation of a relationship. The resolution of a chord. The ideal performance. The next intermission. Is ...

The Romantic composer, Richard Wagner used the +6 chord to great effect by featuring it prominently and capitalizing on its unique sound. In Wagner's Prelude to "Tristan und Isolde," the first chord ...

One of the most famous cadential moments in Wagner’s oeuvre, and in Western classical music, is called the Tristan chord because it occurs extensively in Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde.

But the chord, and the way the following phrase peters out, set the work’s pattern for creating musical expectations that are never resolved, showing why, for Robert P Morgan, Tristan exemplified the ...