Bacchanale
Template:Short description Template:Use shortened footnotes A bacchanale is an orgiastic musical composition,Template:Sfn 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,Template:Sfn Danse générale (Bacchanale) from Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, and Grande bacchanale des saisons in Alexander Glazunov's The Seasons.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". John Cage wrote a Bacchanale in 1940, his first work for prepared piano.Template:Sfn The French composer Jacques Ibert was commissioned by the BBC for the tenth anniversary of the Third Programme in 1956,Template:Sfn for which he wrote a bacchanale.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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.Template:Sfn
Bacchanale (1954) was written by composer Toshiro Mayuzumi for 5 saxophones (soprano, 2 alto, tenor, baritone), timpani, percussion (4), piano, celesta, harp, and strings.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The previous year, he had written a Bacchanale for orchestra.Template:Sfn
"Bacchanale" is also a track composed by Greek musician Vangelis on his album Heaven and Hell.
References
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Works cited
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>Anon. 1956. "Third Programme Anniversary: Music Commissioned for the Occasion". The Times, issue 53570 (Friday, Jun 29 June): 11, col C.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>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.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>Kennedy, Michael. 2006. "Bacchanale". The Oxford Dictionary of Music, second edition, revised, Joyce Bourne, associate editor. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>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.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>Terry, Walter. 1976. Ballet Guide. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>Vangelis. 1975. Bacchanale. Heaven and Hell (Vangelis album) Script error: No such module "Unsubst".