. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. ool (page 44, system 3),but they do not finish it — Wait for him, mychosen tool; they are interrupted by the violentincursion of Parsifal held a prisoner by indignantknights who have caught him red handed. Withhis first words is heard the motive that is devotedto him throughout; brilliant, militant, full of youth-ful exuberance (page 48, system 2). A few frag-ments of it have been heard in the agitated music [5^] The Music that precedes, together with a hint of the Swanharmonies. This is Parsifals theme: IJ
. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. ool (page 44, system 3),but they do not finish it — Wait for him, mychosen tool; they are interrupted by the violentincursion of Parsifal held a prisoner by indignantknights who have caught him red handed. Withhis first words is heard the motive that is devotedto him throughout; brilliant, militant, full of youth-ful exuberance (page 48, system 2). A few frag-ments of it have been heard in the agitated music [5^] The Music that precedes, together with a hint of the Swanharmonies. This is Parsifals theme: IJ^I:. „ 1 ^ XIII, PARSIFAL ,—^. fe^ ¥^ jfi^^ ^ =^^^ ^j^ ? —1 =f^ • i ^M ^ LlT f Ct^i D>^-hi ^•^^?^i_ « ^ y^=i Gurnemanzs reproaches are couched in musi-cal terms of great tenderness and beauty. Inthem we hear the curiously characteristic har-monies of the swan as they occur in Lohengrin, ^— here enwrapped in the arpeggios of harps andviolins but plainly discernible as based on the fol-lowing forms (page 50, system 6, and page 51,systems i and 2). SWAN HARMONIES. As Gurnemanz questions him as to his name,there is the first suggestion of the motive of Her- ^ Self quotation of this sort \vath a deliberate purpose is not un-known to students of Wagners works; they will find Hans Sachsquoting from Tristan und Isolde in the third act of Die Meis-tersinger — just as they will find Mozart quoting from Le Nozzedi Figaro, in the last act of Don Giovanni. [53] A Guide to Parsifal zeleide, his mother, who called him many namesthat he cannot now recall (page 54, system 2). XIV. HERZELEIDE nip dolce ^ Its tender strains accompany the first entranceof compassion into this ignorant wights heart, aslater they accompany Kundrys well calculatedassault upon his feelings in the second act. Gurnemanz escorts the young man to the GrailTemple, and as they proceed, the scene shifts,gradually moving past as time is changed tospace. This transformation is accompanied byan indescribabl
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