. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. The Music Motto of Promise (system 3) and the Faith theme(system 4). A new theme enters as Gurnemanzdescribes Titurels finding of Kundry in uncon-sciousness, as the result of the magic spell castupon her. It is the theme of Sorcery, as exercisedby Klingsor, of very frequent recurrence in thescore. It consists of an alternately rising andfalling chromatic movement to chromatic har-monies in the bass, thus (page 28, system 3): XI, MOTIVE OF SORCERY. At Gurnemanzs impassioned apostrophe to thewounding, wonderf
. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. The Music Motto of Promise (system 3) and the Faith theme(system 4). A new theme enters as Gurnemanzdescribes Titurels finding of Kundry in uncon-sciousness, as the result of the magic spell castupon her. It is the theme of Sorcery, as exercisedby Klingsor, of very frequent recurrence in thescore. It consists of an alternately rising andfalling chromatic movement to chromatic har-monies in the bass, thus (page 28, system 3): XI, MOTIVE OF SORCERY. At Gurnemanzs impassioned apostrophe to thewounding, wonderful and hallowed spear, theSaviours cry of anguish (from the theme of theLast Supper) is heard (page 31, system i). Thereturn of two of the esquires from the lake inter-rupts the talk of the old man, — we hear the mo-tive of Amfortass suffering as the question is puthow he fares (page 34, system i). The Glory ofthe Dawn is again suggested in the answer, (sys-tem 2) but the Suffering motive at once Gurnemanz goes on with his narration ofhow the Grail was entrusted to Titurel and howdisaster came to Amfortas. This is accompaniedby a portion of the Phrase of the Grail Knights(page 35, system i), and then by another deriva-tive from the same theme, rhythmically and har-monically modified (page 35, system 3, and again, [5^1 A Guide to Parsifal page 2)^^ system 4). Still another modificationappears on page 37, system 3, intertwined withsuggestions of the Grail Theme. In the mean-time there have been several recurrence
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