
Motif 39: Good Friday Meadows
German name: Blumenauemotiv
As for Benediction, the motif of the Good Friday Meadows begins with a rising phrase related to Redemption (#1A). This is followed by a phrase (A) which, on close examination, is seen to have been developed (through the early part of the third act) from the unlikely material of the Parsifal motif #16. The third and final phrase of the theme (B) embodies the Bells motif #21. The motif appears first at bar 157, in an initial form with syncopation between violins and violas, as shown in the example below. |
![]() Above: the Good Friday scene from Bayreuth 1957, in a staging of Parsifal by Wieland Wagner. |
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![]() Above: The initial form of the Good Friday Meadows (Blumenaue) motif. |
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References: von Wolzogen ex.24, Lorenz p.148-9, pp.164-5, Lavignac p.468, Kufferath ex.56, Newman ex.51, ENO ex.28.
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