A bacchanale is an orgiastic musical composition,[1] often depicting a drunken revel or bacchanal.
Examples include the bacchanales in Camille Saint-Saëns's Samson and Delilah, the Venusberg scene in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser,[1] Danse générale (Bacchanale) from Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, and Grande bacchanale des saisons in Alexander Glazunov's The Seasons.[citation needed] John Cage wrote a Bacchanale in 1940, his first work for prepared piano.[2] The French composer Jacques Ibert was commissioned by the BBC for the tenth anniversary of the Third Programme in 1956,[3] for which he wrote a bacchanale.[citation needed]
In 1939, Salvador Dalí designed the set and wrote the libretto for a ballet entitled Bacchanale, based on Wagner's Tannhäuser and the myth of Leda and the Swan.[4]
Bacchanale (1954) was written by composer Toshiro Mayuzumi for 5 saxophones (soprano, 2 alto, tenor, baritone), timpani, percussion (4), piano, celesta, harp, and strings.[citation needed] The previous year, he had written a Bacchanale for orchestra.[5]
"Bacchanale" is also a track composed by Greek musician Vangelis on his album Heaven and Hell.
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Dudamel plays the Bacchanale by Camille Saint Saens
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Bacchanale from "Samson & Delilah"
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Saint-Saëns: Danse Bacchanale · Dietrich Paredes · Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Caracas
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References
- ^ a b Kennedy 2006.
- ^ Pritchett and Kuhn 2001.
- ^ Anon. 1956.
- ^ Terry 1976, 44.
- ^ Kanazawa 2001.
Works cited
- Anon. 1956. "Third Programme Anniversary: Music Commissioned for the Occasion". The Times, issue 53570 (Friday, Jun 29 June): 11, col C.
- Kanazawa, Masakata. 2001. "Mayuzumi, Toshirō". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Kennedy, Michael. 2006. "Bacchanale". The Oxford Dictionary of Music, second edition, revised, Joyce Bourne, associate editor. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198614594.
- Pritchett, James, and Laura Kuhn. 2001. "Cage, John". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Terry, Walter. 1976. Ballet Guide. [full citation needed]
- Vangelis. 1975. Bacchanale. Heaven and Hell (Vangelis album) [full citation needed]
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