{{ There is what sounds like a possible reference to music or even a specific motif which accompanied Alberich in R.3 when he predicted that Loge would betray the gods, just as Loge betrayed Alberich, and/or Alberich’s prediction in the same scene that Alberich will turn the gods’ heroes against them, when Siegfried says: “Listen to whether I broke my faith! (#157) Blood-brotherhood have I sworn to Gunther.” The motifs heard in R.3 when Alberich predicted Loge would betray the gods were #33b, #35, #47, and a #48 embryo. }}
Some extracts from Wagner’s writings which support the concept that Siegfried’s unconscious mind, his muse Bruennhilde, the womb which produces the Ring’s musical motifs, is capable of exposing Wotan’s unspoken secret - knowledge which Siegfried possesses unconsciously - to consciousness, if Siegfried unwittingly gives his muse, and the secret knowledge she holds for him, to his audience, are the following. In our first extract (cited previously) Wagner explains how, as both the author and composer of his music-dramas, he has unique insight into the inner process of unconscious artistic inspiration:
“In the long run I always hark back to my Schopenhauer, who has led me to the most remarkable trains of thought … in amendment of some of his imperfections. The theme becomes more interesting to me every day, for it is a question here of explications such as I alone can give, since there never was another man who was poet and musician at once in my sense, and therefore to whom an insight into inner processes has become possible such as could be expected of no other.” [665W-{12/8/58}Letter to Mathilde Wesendonck: RWLMW, p. 78]
And here Wagner confesses that through his musical motifs he makes his audience (say, Gunther and the Gibichungs) fellow knowers of the profoundest secret of his poetic aim, an aim which remains unconscious for him:
“These Melodic Moments, in themselves adapted to maintain our Feeling at an even height, will be made by the orchestra into a kind of guides-to-Feeling (Gefuehlsweigweisern) through the whole labyrinthine (vielgewundenen) building of the drama. At their hand we become the constant fellow-knowers of the profoundest secret of the poet’s Aim, the immediate partners in its realisement.” [547W-{50-1/51} Opera and Drama: PW Vol. II, p. 346]
[T.2.4: D]
The Gibichung Vassals and women, and Gunther and Gutrune, all now demand that Siegfried swear an oath to refute Bruennhilde’s abhorrent charges against him, charges which dishonor them all:
(The vassals and women gather together in lively indignation.)
The vassals: What? Has he broken faith? (#150 vari:) Has he tarnished Gunther’s honour (:#150 vari)?
