V.                     Woe  

  Music-Woe

Von Wolzogen:  Frohn-motive (Bondage)

Cooke:  Woe / Servitude

Sabor:  Grief

Holman:  Woe / Servitude

Stone:  Woe Motif

 

  Music-Misfortune

Stone:  Siegmund’s Misfortune

 

  Music-Distress

Holman:  Bride’s Lament

 

  Music-Hunding's Look

Stone:  Hunding’s Suspicion

 

  Music-Wotan's Rage

Stone:  Wotan’s Bitterness

 

  Music-Doom

Von Wolzogen:  Schicksalsfrage (‘questioning of fate’)

Cooke:  Fate

Sabor:  Fate

Holman:  Fate

Stone:  Fate

Comment:  The second staff is the more developed tympani theme that Sabor identifies as the Crisis Motive.

 

  Music-Song of Doom

Von Wolzogen:  Sterbegesang (‘deathsong’)

Cooke:  The Annunciation of Death

Sabor:  Death

Holman:  Annunciation of Death

Stone:  Judgement

 

  Music-Siegmund's Rebellion

Stone:  Siegmund’s Rebellion

 

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