Info

Home Page / About Wagnerheim
Introduction by Roger Scruton
About the Author
Interactive Features
Wagner Lecture Videos
Wagner Lecture / Papers Transcript
Links
Contact Us
Discussion Forum

Table of Contents

Title Page
Dedication Page
General Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations for key references
Guide to abbreviations used in text
Allen Dunning's numbered Guide to the Ring's Musical Motifs
Detailed Table of Contents

The Ring

Introduction


References
Appendix I
Appendix I I

Key Colour Coding

Donations Welcome

I would be grateful for donations of any size, small or large, to help defray the cost (1) of maintaining this website, (2) and to finance my past and present research which produced my book posted here, Volume One of "The Wound That Will Never Heal," and my forthcoming revision of Volume One (to be submitted for publication), and completion of Volume Two on Wagner's six other canonic operas and music-dramas. I sacrificed at least seven years of paid employment and incurred debts to complete this project, and am currently unemployed, so I thank you in advance for any financial help you can provide. Your friend, Paul Heise.

the unconscious to consciousness, within him: the only thing that is surprising is that Siegfried himself has played a key role in bringing this fate, his own doom, to fruition. Siegfried is about to expose the secret which it was long the purpose of religious faith (in its fear of the truth, represented by Fafner guarding Alberich’s Hoard, Tarnhelm, and Ring) to obscure.

[T.3.2: B]

Siegfried suddenly tells the assembled hunters that he is thirsty, and we can’t help thinking that he is thirsty for self-knowledge, thirsty for Hagen’s antidote to the potion of love-and-forgetfulness which made Siegfried forget Bruennhilde and woo a false muse, Gutrune:

Siegfried: (#154:) I’m thirsty (:#154)!

 

((#@: e or f) = #174c inversion: [#Motif of Remembrance. Dunning previously described this as #139. Is this the music into which #134 transformed in T.1.2 as Siegfried was toasting Bruennhilde and sang: “(#134) This first (#139:) drink to true remembrance, Bruennhild’, I drink to you!,” just before drinking Hagen’s potion, which Gutrune offered him?])

 

Hagen: (#voc?: [perhaps music associated with Siegfried’s conversation with the Woodbird from s.2.2-3?]) Siegfried, I’ve heard it said you can understand (:#174c inversion = (#@: e or f?) [#Motif of Remembrance, perhaps #139?]; :voc? [perhaps music referencing the Woodbird’s conversation with Siegfried from S.2.2-3?]) (#128b:; #?: [perhaps a hint of #110, or #145 from S.3.3, or #104 from S.1.1, &/or Mime’s telling Siegfried how Siegfried’s mother died giving him birth in S.1.1?]) the language of bird-song: can it be true (:#128b; :#? [#110 or #145 from S.3.3, or #104, &/or a musical reference to Mime telling Siegfried how Siegfried’s mother died giving him birth in S.1.1?])? (#128b frag)

 

Siegfried: (#149 or #150?: [perhaps some music associated with Bruennhilde’s love inspiring Siegfried to undertake new adventures, or her imparting Wotan’s hoard of runes to him, from T.P, &/or #168 from T.2.2 as sung by the Gibichung Vassals?]) It’s long since I’ve heeded their warbling (:#149 or #150? [&/or #168?]).