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O leuchtete noch O would that thy light In der Tiefe dein laut'rer Tand ! Waved in the waters below ! Traulich und treu Unfailing faith Ist's nur in der Tiefe : Is found in the deep, Falsch und feig While above, in delight, 1st was dort oben sich freut ! Faintness and falsehood abide ! The gods stride over the bridge towards the castle. Thus closes the " Rheingold." " It remains to point out the fine psychological use to which the leading motives are turned in this scene. While Wotan is still u...nder the power of the gold, the ring-motive in the orchestra paints the struggle of his soul ; his moral effort in parting with the ring is power- fully expressed by the bond-motive, which in a manner connects his act with the moral order of the world, of which he is the guardian and representative. . . . The musical conception of this extremely powerful scene (the quarrel between Fasolt and Fafnir) is founded on a combination of the ring-motive and the formula of Alberich's curse, the former being representative of the irresistible attraction of the gold, the latter of its bane- ful power.
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