![]() Other arrangements have also been made, such as the variation for the violin and piano. The SATB chorus is indicated by Massenet to be sung by the entire chorus from behind the curtain in an opera setting, and by four to eight soloists seated among the orchestra in a concert setting. The solo violin part is generally played by the orchestra's concertmaster in an opera setting, or by a featured soloist standing in front of the orchestra in a concert setting. The piece calls for solo violin, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, 2 horns, SATB chorus, two harps and strings. After the theme is played twice, the soloist joins the orchestra while playing harmonics on the upper register as the harps and strings quietly play below the solo line. The climax is reached at a place marked poco piu appassionato (a little more passion) and is then followed by a short cadenza-like passage from the soloist and returns to the main theme. ![]() After the violin plays the melody twice, the piece goes into a section marked animato, gradually becoming more and more passionate (Massenet wrote poco a poco appassionato). The piece opens with a short introduction by the harps, with the solo violin quickly entering with the motif. Massenet may also have written the piece with religious intentions the tempo marking is Andante religioso, signifying his intention that it should be played religiously (which could mean either strictly in the tempo or literally with religiously-founded emotion) and at walking tempo, or around 60 BPM. The piece is in D major and is approximately five minutes long (although there are a number of interpretations that stretch the piece to over six minutes). ![]() In the second scene of Act II, following the Méditation, Thaïs tells Athanaël that she will follow him to the desert. It is during a time of reflection following the encounter that the Méditation is played by the orchestra. In the first scene of Act II, Athanaël, a Cenobite monk, confronts Thaïs, a beautiful and hedonistic courtesan and devotée of Venus, and attempts to persuade her to leave her life of luxury and pleasure and find salvation through God. The Méditation is an instrumental entr'acte performed between the scenes of Act II in the opera Thaïs. ![]() Problems playing this file? See media help. ![]()
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