Wagner Leitmotifs | 21 Loge : Der Ring Des Nibelungen @wagnerleitmotifs7654 | Uploaded September 2013 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
This leitmotif is first heard in the second scene of Das Rheingold.
This motif represents Loge, (demi-)god of fire, and the most cunning of the immortals. Most of the other gods distrust him, however he is the only one who is able to get them out of the problems they make for themselves, and he alone, it seems, senses the folly and danger posed by Valhalla.
The motif is highly chromatic to show the magical, chaotic and uncontrollable nature of fire. The notes seem to flicker just as fire, indeed when there is fire later in the cycle, Loge's motif represents it without he himself being present: at the end of Die Walkure when Brunnhilde is imprisoned, and at the end of Gotterdammerung for her immolation scene.
Each of the segments of this motif are heard separately at various points and in different orders, and they can combine with each other.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
None
Related Leitmotifs:
Torch (Tristan und Isolde): youtu.be/esQPvVy3Kd0
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Tarnhelm: youtu.be/N82zEAbWyT4
Arrogance: youtu.be/bDuuifShYzk
Magic Sleep: youtu.be/GMXtTlEmms8
Wanderer: youtu.be/cGHyqk6OFLQ
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This video is designed for the purpose of teaching the viewer about the leitmotifs in Wagner's Operas, where they appear and how the work. This clearly comes under the umbrella of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
This leitmotif is first heard in the second scene of Das Rheingold.
This motif represents Loge, (demi-)god of fire, and the most cunning of the immortals. Most of the other gods distrust him, however he is the only one who is able to get them out of the problems they make for themselves, and he alone, it seems, senses the folly and danger posed by Valhalla.
The motif is highly chromatic to show the magical, chaotic and uncontrollable nature of fire. The notes seem to flicker just as fire, indeed when there is fire later in the cycle, Loge's motif represents it without he himself being present: at the end of Die Walkure when Brunnhilde is imprisoned, and at the end of Gotterdammerung for her immolation scene.
Each of the segments of this motif are heard separately at various points and in different orders, and they can combine with each other.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
None
Related Leitmotifs:
Torch (Tristan und Isolde): youtu.be/esQPvVy3Kd0
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Tarnhelm: youtu.be/N82zEAbWyT4
Arrogance: youtu.be/bDuuifShYzk
Magic Sleep: youtu.be/GMXtTlEmms8
Wanderer: youtu.be/cGHyqk6OFLQ
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.
This video is designed for the purpose of teaching the viewer about the leitmotifs in Wagner's Operas, where they appear and how the work. This clearly comes under the umbrella of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
