
Motif 33: Straying
German name: Motiv des Irrens
Newman called this motif Straying. Kufferath saw it as a development of the Riding motif. It first appears in the prelude to act III, where it represents
Parsifal's confused and stumbling course through the world. We hear it again when Parsifal tells Gurnemanz of his wanderings on paths of suffering
and of how dangers, battles and duels
forced him
from the path that leads to Monsalvat.
References: von Wolzogen p.77, Kufferath ex.46, Newman ex.40, ENO ex.6., Lorenz p.145.
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