The orchestral accompaniment during Isolde's speech has a very solemn character imparted to it by slow chords of the trombones, piano, with somewhat feverish semiquaver triplets on the strings, snatches of the love-motive and other motives being heard in the wood-wind; while in the pauses, runs on the violins mark Kurwenal's impatience.
"Wagner's Tristan und Isolde"
George Ainslie Hight
This theme is a very high, swift, semiquaver passage for violins, with some occasional help from the wood wind.
"Shakespeare and Music"
Christopher Wilson
semiquaver notes, Merry little motes, Tangled in the haze Of the lamp's golden rays, Quiver everywhere In the air, Like a spray,- Till the fuller stream of the might of the tune, Gliding like a dream in the light of the moon, Bears them all away, and away, and away, Floating in the trance of the dance.
"The Poems of Henry Van Dyke"
Henry Van Dyke