A funny thought in Music Appreciation Class

Richard Wagner, romantic period composer. In an Opera known mostly as The Ring Cycle, Wagner uses what are called leitmotifs. What are leitmotifs? They are short musical themes that represent a certain person, idea. or object. In The Ring Cycle, Wagner takes the leitmotifs of various characters and emotions and pieces them together to create a network of these motifs. In certain situations a Summer leitmotif might be combined with a Tree leitmotif to set the placement of a scene.

During presentations of this 18-hour opera, the audiences were handed little program books that showed what leitmotifs were currently playing. This helped the audience understand the feelings, ideas, and settings the story was in.

So what does this all mean? Well most of you clever folk might have already noticed the correlation.

That's right.. Richard Wagner, the first Object-Oriented composer ;)

I would rather tattoo myself with a sauldering iron than sit through 18 hours of opera. I actually do like some opera.. (no no not just the browser kind) but 18 hours is far past the limit of enjoyment. That was pretty clever of him though.

Yeah, that's what I thought. But they split it up into 3 days. Still, that's a big committment for entertainment.

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Originally posted by biosx
That's right.. Richard Wagner, the first Object-Oriented composer ;)

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*Galen plays a rimshot*

:D

You are correct. In fact, if people have trouble understanding OOD/OOP, this might be a possible example to give.

Ahhh, good idea.