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Sounding Libretto – Mastersingers

The Mastersinger of Nuremberg was published as the first volume in the Sounding Librettos series of Musicosa Publishing

  • The libretto is bilingual, on one page the German original text, on the opposite site the English translation.
  • All leitmotifs are written down in the margins and can be followed when listening to the WebApp.
  • The leitmotifs are clearly arranged on music boards.
  • An audio example was recorded for each leitmotif, which can be played using the included WebApp.

Content

  • 354 pages
  • 53 leitmotif scores and audio samples, playable in a web browser on a PC or in a WebApp on a smart phone.
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Reading sample

An excerpt from the beginning of the 3rd scene of the 3rd act was chosen as a reading sample. Beckmesser sneaked into Hans Sachs' room:


The motifs are listed in the order in which they appear in the reading sample:

click sheet music images to listen

chalk stroke motif

delusion motif

Beckmesser's courtship motif'

anger motif

prize song (stanza)

singing art motif
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Samples

To hear all the audio examples recorded so far, click on the image

 Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle by Michael Wolgemut (1493)


  1. anger motif
  2. art motif
  3. awake choral
  4. baptismal verse
  5. beating motif
  6. Beckmesser motif
  7. Beckmesser’s courtship motif
  8. Beckmesser’s passion motif
  9. Beckmesser’s song
  10. chalk stroke motif
  11. chaplet motif
  12. choral of baptism
  13. cobbler’s labor motif
  14. cobbler’s song
  15. competition motif
  16. courtship motif
  17. David motif
  18. delight motif
  19. dilusion motif
  20. disapproval motif
  21. dream motif
  22. elder motif
  23. envy motif
  24. Eva motif
  25. excitement trill
  26. friendship motif
  27. grace motif
  28. guild motifs
  29. hope motif
  30. king David motif
  31. liveliness motif
  32. lute motif
  33. mastersinger motif
  34. Midsummer day motif
  35. mockery motif
  36. nature rule motif
  37. Nuremberg motif
  38. passion motif
  39. prentices motif
  40. prize song (stanza)
  41. prize song (love theme)
  42. rage motif
  43. rejection motif
  44. resentment motif
  45. resignation motif
  46. scorn motif
  47. singing art motif
  48. springtime’s behest motif
  49. Stolzing motif
  50. summer night's magic motif
  51. Vogelweid motif
  52. work lust motif
  53. youth motif
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