Wagner Leitmotifs | 29 Arrogance : Der Ring Des Nibelungen @wagnerleitmotifs7654 | Uploaded August 2013 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
This leitmotif is first heard in the forth scene of Das Rheingold.
This motif represents arrogance. The first bar uses the same intervals as the Ring and Valhalla, showing that the Ring makes its wearer arrogant, and also that the gods are arrogant for having built Valhalla and put the whole of creation at risk because of this. The second half is a portion of the Loge motif, representing cunning.
At the beginning of Das Rheingold, this motif is associated with Alberich, however as the gods dissmiss the Rhinemaidens' lament, it is heard again. Later on in the cycle it moves to be associated with Mime, his brother, at the start of Siegfried as he plans to use Nothung through Siegfried to get the Ring. Then it Returns to Alberich at the start of act 2 during his confrontation with the wonderer, as he continues to espouse his belief that he can once again regain the ring and his power.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
Valhalla: youtube.com/watch?v=Man7MwIHYSw
Loge: youtu.be/OZG70F2ob_k
Related Leitmotifs:
Ring: youtube.com/watch?v=cZpYG6l6s4A
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
None
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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 forth scene of Das Rheingold.
This motif represents arrogance. The first bar uses the same intervals as the Ring and Valhalla, showing that the Ring makes its wearer arrogant, and also that the gods are arrogant for having built Valhalla and put the whole of creation at risk because of this. The second half is a portion of the Loge motif, representing cunning.
At the beginning of Das Rheingold, this motif is associated with Alberich, however as the gods dissmiss the Rhinemaidens' lament, it is heard again. Later on in the cycle it moves to be associated with Mime, his brother, at the start of Siegfried as he plans to use Nothung through Siegfried to get the Ring. Then it Returns to Alberich at the start of act 2 during his confrontation with the wonderer, as he continues to espouse his belief that he can once again regain the ring and his power.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
Valhalla: youtube.com/watch?v=Man7MwIHYSw
Loge: youtu.be/OZG70F2ob_k
Related Leitmotifs:
Ring: youtube.com/watch?v=cZpYG6l6s4A
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
None
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.
