Faust

Discontent (knowledge & divine)

Melancholic
Uncertainty / witchy
Confused (love & lust)
Innocent / loving / sensual
Infuriated / guilt / lamentable
Remorse / despair / madness

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Night
Discontent / confusion / resolute / divine
Macrocosm: Recurring arpeggios
Earths Spirit: wide dynamics and minor ascen
ding arpeggios
Soliloquy

I take no pleasure in anything now; / For I know I know no

thing (15)
How great a spectacle! But that, I fear, / Is all it is (17)
What must I do now? Who shall counsel me? / What urge c
laims my obedience? (22)
I will be resolute, and turn away / For ever from the earth
s sweet day (24)
Now my tears flow, I love the earth once more! (26)

Fausts Study I & II

Deluding / devilish
Faust: untrusting to resolute
(chromatic to diatonic)
Chromatic / trills / Phrygian mode
Chords: augmented 4th (tritone: sound of devil) & 5th

Faust: you / strange son of chaos! Think again, / and looking f

or something else to do (43)
Faust: One might conclude a pact with you / Gentlemen, and
a guaranteed one too? (44)
Mephistopheles: How soon your lullaby enchanted him! (46)
Mephistopheles: think well what you are doing (52)

Witchs Kitchen & Walpurgis Night

Witchcraft (crazy/madness)
Paragon of Femininity (heavenly/zealous)
Dissonance / chromatic / cacophonic
B harmonic minor: This is as it were the key of pati
ence, of calm awaiting one's fate and of submission
to divine dispensation.
Oh, heavenly image! What is this I see / Appearing to me in th
is magic glass? The loveliest image of a woman! The quinte
ssence of paradise! (75)
I think Im going a bit crazy too (76)
Split! Split in two! / Thats spoilt your stew! / Thats spoilt your
cooking! (77)

A Street
Loving / desperate / ardent
G Major: gentle & peaceful & faithful love
By God, but thats a lovely girlSo virtuous, s
o decent, yet / A touch of sauciness as well!
(81)
Look, you must get that girl for me (82)
Shall I see her? Have her? (83)

Evening & Promenade

Confusion / love / sensual
G harmonic minor: uneasiness & confusion
Now let loves sweet pain / That lives on hope
s refreshing dew / Seize and consume my hear
t again! (84)
Am I now Faust or not? / Is there some magic
hovering round me here? / I was resolved, my l
ust brooked no delay - / And now in dreams of
love I wilt and melt away! (85)

A Garden & Summerhouse

Innocent / playful
G major (calm & satisfied)
D major (victory, rejoice, heavenly)
He loves me loves me not loves me (100)
My hands on your hands tell you what / No word
s can say: / To give oneself entirely and to feel / Ec
stasy that must last for ever! / For ever! For its e
nd would be despair. / No, never-ending! Never e
nding! (101)

A Forest Cavern
Anger / guilt / melancholic
chromatic
b flat minor (discontented)
youd try to mar my satisfaction, devil as you are (1
04)
Shame on you! (104)
You snake! You snake! (105)
Words used: fugitive, aimless, restless reprobate, greedy
furious spate, my rage to rive and burst and wreck

Prison
helpless / despair / madness
Phrygian mode: vehement
Augmented 4th & 5th
Ascending & descending scales
Quick, oh, quick! / Save your poor baby! / Hes in th
e pond! / Hes trying to swim! / Save him! (147)
Oh, stop, stop! Think what it is you say! (147)
Well meet later on / I cant hear them, but the crow
ds advancing. / There are so many there, / Now Im
on the execution-chair (148)

Unpredictable
Fragmented
Devilish
Faustian

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