Leitmotifs in
The Dolls of
New Albion
March 2023 | by Dani | Header by Stefan Paris
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Okay so basically I listened to the Paul Shapera's Dolls of New Albion recently, and, well, I may have liked it so much I obsessively made a diagram of all the different musical motifs found in the opera.
You can hover over the different sections of the songs for information on the motif that plays at that point in the song. The colours are somewhat arbitrary, though I tried to use similar colors for similar or related motifs. Diagonal stripes signal that a motif is played on top of or below the previous motif(s).
The idea and most of the code for this is taken from dragonflycave's visualisation for Jesus Christ Superstar.