Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Siegfried: Music-Drama in Three Acts, Third Evening of "the Ring of the Nibelung" Cyclus
A scene of peculiarly Wagnerian conception follows, a charmful, fairy story set in music, painting and poetry. Siegfried-sits down beneath the linden-tree, and left alone with his thoughts, begins to muse about his parents, wondering how his father and mother looked when they were in life, the orchestra the while, with its duties' of the ancient chorus, telling the audience who they were in the motives which were heard in The Valkyr whenever Siegmund or Sieglinda appeared. The thought of his mother awakens in him a longing for love, for some comely companion. For Whom he has lured in vain with. The tones of his horn in the forest.. He revels in the beauties of the scene before him. The sun is trembling upon the leaves of the trees, and all is still except the mysterious murmur of the for est which is about awakening to life. The music which accompanies the scene, says Ben: net, serves as a bright example of Wagner's wondrous power of depicting nature, of exciting in the hearts of his hearersthe same embtions which a picture Of the surrounding scenery would do, and at the same time oi revealing to them what is passing in Siegfried's mind as he muses within himself. The scene, says Huefi'er, forms an idyllic episode of the sweetest charm, and the mysterious life and whir of the forest on a summer' 5 morning has been rendered by Wagner m an orchestral piece of almost sym phonic import and replete with romantic emo tion. The music of the scene is known as the Wala'webm, a word which has been inadequately translated as Voices of the Forest.' It is des criptive of the mysterious weaving or tremor of sunshine falling through the forest foliage upon the sward, and the awakin g of nature, animate and inanimate, in the woods by the 'flight that leaps and runs and revels, -heralding the dawn.of day.
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