Wagner Leitmotifs | 47 Obligation: Der Ring Des Nibelungen @wagnerleitmotifs7654 | Uploaded September 2013 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
This leitmotif is first heard in act 1 scene 2 of Die Walkure.
This motif is the welcome Hunding gives to Siegmund when he arrives. The text is what all hosts must give their guest: "Heilig ist mein Herd: heilig sei dir mein Haus!" ("Sacred is my hearth: may my house be sacred to you!"), ie. free and untroubled shelter for the night to any visitor. However the tone of the music shows that Hunding offers this most grudgingly.
This motif is heard later at the end of Die Walkure as Wotan sends Hunding to Fricka, killing him on the spot: "meld' ihr, dass Wotans Speer geracht, was Spott ihr schuf." ("tell her [Fricka] that Wotan's Spear has avenged what brought her disgrace."). Here Wotan is being devastatingly sarcastic, both ridiculing there bond of obligation which tied Hunding, since he killed his guest the instant he was not compelled to play host, and telling Fricka that on her orders he has destroyed a pairing of true love, the covenant that the goddess is supposed to protect (the fact that Sieglinde and Siegmund were siblings is irrelevant to Wotan, Wagner is arguing for free love, though perhaps not explicitly incest).
This motif is derived from the first 4 notes of the Ring motif.
Progenitor Leitmotifs:
Ring: youtu.be/cZpYG6l6s4A
Love Tragedy: youtu.be/-Pas2AkImPo
Related Leitmotifs:
Atonement: youtu.be/YkHcytt0leg
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 act 1 scene 2 of Die Walkure.
This motif is the welcome Hunding gives to Siegmund when he arrives. The text is what all hosts must give their guest: "Heilig ist mein Herd: heilig sei dir mein Haus!" ("Sacred is my hearth: may my house be sacred to you!"), ie. free and untroubled shelter for the night to any visitor. However the tone of the music shows that Hunding offers this most grudgingly.
This motif is heard later at the end of Die Walkure as Wotan sends Hunding to Fricka, killing him on the spot: "meld' ihr, dass Wotans Speer geracht, was Spott ihr schuf." ("tell her [Fricka] that Wotan's Spear has avenged what brought her disgrace."). Here Wotan is being devastatingly sarcastic, both ridiculing there bond of obligation which tied Hunding, since he killed his guest the instant he was not compelled to play host, and telling Fricka that on her orders he has destroyed a pairing of true love, the covenant that the goddess is supposed to protect (the fact that Sieglinde and Siegmund were siblings is irrelevant to Wotan, Wagner is arguing for free love, though perhaps not explicitly incest).
This motif is derived from the first 4 notes of the Ring motif.
Progenitor Leitmotifs:
Ring: youtu.be/cZpYG6l6s4A
Love Tragedy: youtu.be/-Pas2AkImPo
Related Leitmotifs:
Atonement: youtu.be/YkHcytt0leg
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.
