Wagner Leitmotifs | 52 Nothung : Der Ring Des Nibelungen @wagnerleitmotifs7654 | Uploaded August 2013 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
This leitmotif is first heard in the act 1 scene 3 of Die Walkure.
This motif represents the magical sword Nothung (pronounced Notung), which means Needful, and which Siegmund's father (Wotan as Walse) promised would come to him in his hour of need, and which Siegmund finds embedded in the tree growing through the house of Sieglinde and Hunding, and which no one could remove save for Siegmund (much like Excalibur stuck in the stone in Arthurian legends). The motif is first heard as Siegmund christens it thus. Another time that it's heard is as Siegfried manages to reforge it's shattered remains, in a scene of similar triumph.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
Sword: youtu.be/XhM5UkVVmxA
Related Leitmotifs:
None
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Honour: youtu.be/Xg3eDi3X_II
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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 act 1 scene 3 of Die Walkure.
This motif represents the magical sword Nothung (pronounced Notung), which means Needful, and which Siegmund's father (Wotan as Walse) promised would come to him in his hour of need, and which Siegmund finds embedded in the tree growing through the house of Sieglinde and Hunding, and which no one could remove save for Siegmund (much like Excalibur stuck in the stone in Arthurian legends). The motif is first heard as Siegmund christens it thus. Another time that it's heard is as Siegfried manages to reforge it's shattered remains, in a scene of similar triumph.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
Sword: youtu.be/XhM5UkVVmxA
Related Leitmotifs:
None
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Honour: youtu.be/Xg3eDi3X_II
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.
