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===The Hero's Adversaries===
===The Hero's Adversaries===
The Hero's Adversaries are musical depictions of how Strauss viewed other composers of his day, namely [[Mahler]] and [[Sibelius]], and various music critics. It begins with "spiky" woodwinds which seem to mimic Sibelius. The anti-Strauss [[Viennese]] music critic Doktor Dehring, a pedantic critic who could not abide breaking the rules of harmony, is outlined in a recurring [[leitmotif]] by tenor and base tuba which seem simultaneously ominous and brain-dead. Doktor Dehring's name is announced using parallel fifths - a deliberate harmonic mistake. By mocking his chief critic, Strauss emulates [[Richard Wagner]], who responded to the persistent music critic Edward Hanslick by writing in the villainous character [[Beckmesser]] in ''[[Die Meistersinger]]''. Together, the woodwinds and brass make a chorus of mean-spirited sniping. Strauss enters on bassoons, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, horns, and low strings, slowly surveying his enemies. Squabbling continues, until Strauss declares a brief victory and his wife enters on solo First violin to begin the next section.
The Hero's Adversaries are musical depictions of how Strauss viewed other composers of his day, namely [[Mahler]] and [[Sibelius]], and various music critics. It begins with "spiky" woodwinds which seem to mimic Sibelius. The anti-Strauss [[Viennese]] music critic Doktor Dehring, a pedantic critic who could not abide breaking the rules of harmony, is outlined in a recurring [[leitmotif]] by tenor and base tuba which seem simultaneously ominous and brain-dead. Doktor Dehring's name is announced using parallel fifths - a deliberate harmonic mistake.
By mocking his chief critic, Strauss emulates [[Richard Wagner]], who responded to the persistent music critic Edward Hanslick by writing in the villainous character [[Beckmesser]] in ''[[Die Meistersinger]]''. Together, the woodwinds and brass make a chorus of mean-spirited sniping. Strauss enters on bassoons, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, horns, and low strings, slowly surveying his enemies. Squabbling continues, until Strauss declares a brief victory and his wife enters on solo First violin to begin the next section.
===The Hero's Companion===
===The Hero's Companion===