Salome by R. Strauss ( Audio + Sheet Music)

Perhaps in twenty years time someone will be able to explain these harmonic progressions Arnold Schoenberg, commenting on the vocal score of Salome (1905) Salome is an opera by Richard Strauss based on Oscar Wilde s play of the same name (1891). It tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather s dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as