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[[#75]] Siegmund's and Sieglinde's delight in each other (united are Love and Spring)

(#75’s motival links, if any, not yet ascertained; this motif is employed in Wagner’s independent chamber orchestra composition, the Siegfried Idyll)

[See #73 for 75’s dramatic context. See below for another crucial recurrence:]

“Siegmund: [to Sieglinde] Name me yourself as you'd like me called: (#75) I'll take my name from you."

[[#76]] The Waelsung twins' remembrance of things past – their common Waelsung heritage

(#76’s motival links, if any, not yet ascertained; heard most prominently after this in the exciting finale of V.1.3 as the Waelsung twin-pair Siegmund and Sieglinde run off together from Hunding’s house to elope)

“Sieglinde: (Pushing his hair away from his forehead and gazing at him in astonishment.) [Sieglinde notices his brow and its veins.] (#74) I tremble to tell of the bliss that transports me: - (#20a?) a wonder seeks to forewarn me: you whom I first beheld today my eyes have seen before!

 

Siegmund: (#24) A dream of love forewarns me, too: ([[ #76 ]]; #?; #63; #74) in fervent longing I’ve seen you before!

 

Sieglinde: My own likeness I glimpsed in the brook – and now I see it again: as once it rose from the pool, to me now you show that likeness!

 

Siegmund: (#25 or #40?) You are the likeness I hid within me.

 

Sieglinde: (Quickly averting her eyes) O hush! Let me hark to your voice: I think that I heard its sound as a child – but no! I heard it of late when the ring of my voice re-echoed through the wood.

 

Siegmund: (#40?) O sweetest of sounds (#64) to which I hearken!

 

Sieglinde: (Gazing into his eyes again: #71; #57) Your eyes’ smouldering glance glinted upon me ere now: - (#20a Vari?) So the greybeard looked as he greeted me once and brought comfort to me in my sadness. By his glance his child knew who he