Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Wechseltanz
English translation:
kaleidoscopic dance
Added to glossary by
Chris Rowson (X)
Nov 4, 2003 16:31
20 yrs ago
German term
Chris Rowson (X)
Wechseltanz
German to English
Art/Literary
"„Sie muss“, so bemerkt der Rezensent der Leipziger Allgemeinen Musikalischen Zeitung 1812, „den Zuhörer so sehr in die Neuheit und den Wechseltanz der Gedanken, denen er immer, jedoch vergebens nachzugehen versucht, verflechten, dass er sich endlich in ihren Zauberkreisen vergisst.“
Proposed translations
(English)
Proposed translations
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25 mins
Selected
kaleidoscopic dance / procession
kaleidoscopic dance / procession
ever-changing thoughts (dance of thoughts)
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Note added at 2003-11-04 20:07:21 (GMT)
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myriad interplay of thoughts
ever-changing parade/array of thoughts
something with mingling/intermingling (should that have a hypen?!)
ever-changing thoughts (dance of thoughts)
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Note added at 2003-11-04 20:07:21 (GMT)
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myriad interplay of thoughts
ever-changing parade/array of thoughts
something with mingling/intermingling (should that have a hypen?!)
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Well thanks everyone, for a kaleidoscopic array of good ideas! I stuck with dance here, because it matches well with how I see my own perception of such a Fantasia, and chose the kaleidoscopic to round it out, though I suspect the reason it needs an adjective has more to do with the rhythm of the ideas than with their sense. Mario´s “whirling” might have been good, but I wanted to use “swirling” for the “Zauberkreise”, and lots of the other ideas were tempting too.
But in the end, this was about the new music of 1812, and Wechseltanz has to evoke the dancers swirling on a Viennese dance-floor."
6 mins
dance
Probably dance alone will do here. Wechseltanz means partner-changing dance (such as, say, a square dance).
Peer comment(s):
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dudzik
: hier geht es ganz klar nicht um Tanz an sich, sondern an ein "Wechselspiel" der Gedanken
17 mins
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Das ist mir schon klar. Aber die Metapher des Tanzes lässt sich im Englischen genau so gut verwenden wie im Deutschen, oder?
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Mario Marcolin
: I agree on keeping the dance-imagery
20 hrs
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50 mins
ever-changing canvas/carpet of thoughts
I wouldn't tie myself too closely to the metapher.
53 mins
the dance of interchanging thoughts
Hope this helps, all the best.
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1 hr
Maureen Holm, J.D., LL.M.
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pavanne
Could work as well with the 'weaving' that comes later.
4 hrs
Norbert Hermann
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revolving thoughts
I would get away from the Tanz thing - anyway "revolving" is not so far off from dancing and the concept of "revolving thoughts is widely understood.
... The spiritual pathfinder GI Gurdjieff points out that “Sometimes a man is lost in revolving thoughts which return again and again to the same thing, the same ...
... the intertwining of the normally distinct themes of Christian salvation and Germanic concession to "Wyrd"; this mixture suggests the revolving thoughts of a ...
... The revolving Thoughts of this persistent dream. ... i read this somewhere, and this part, "the revolving thoughts of this persistent dream... ...
... The spiritual pathfinder GI Gurdjieff points out that “Sometimes a man is lost in revolving thoughts which return again and again to the same thing, the same ...
... the intertwining of the normally distinct themes of Christian salvation and Germanic concession to "Wyrd"; this mixture suggests the revolving thoughts of a ...
... The revolving Thoughts of this persistent dream. ... i read this somewhere, and this part, "the revolving thoughts of this persistent dream... ...
4 hrs
ballet
light, elegant, like a ballet of thoughts
+1
4 hrs
interplay
a word which keeps reasonably close to the Wechseltanz/verflechten ideas
20 hrs
Mario Marcolin
Sweden
Sweden
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Sweden
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198
whirling dance
Sie muss den Zuhörer so sehr in die Neuheit und den Wechseltanz der Gedanken.. verflechten
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entangle the listener in the novelty and whirling dance of (his/her) ideas
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Note added at 20 hrs 50 mins (2003-11-05 13:21:43 GMT)
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NOTE: In 1812 or thereabouts Waltz-dancing was the new thing...
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entangle the listener in the novelty and whirling dance of (his/her) ideas
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Note added at 20 hrs 50 mins (2003-11-05 13:21:43 GMT)
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NOTE: In 1812 or thereabouts Waltz-dancing was the new thing...
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