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Helena waited till the noise died down, then she repeated her horn-call. 'Yet it is very much like the fog-horn, she said, curiously interested. 'This time next week, Helena! he said. She suddenly went heavy, and stretched across to clasp his hand as it lay upon the table. 'I shall be calling to you from Cornwall, she said. He did not reply.
'Is it? she said curiously. 'Why? Well yes I think I can understand its being so to some people. It's something like the call of the horn across the sea to Tristan. She hummed softly, then three times she sang the horn-call. Siegmund, with his face expressionless as a mask, sat staring out at the mist. The boom of the siren broke in upon them. To him, the sound was full of fatality.
The reflection of Loge's defence pales. There greets our ear suddenly a sturdy strain, resembling something we have heard before. By analysis, we discover in it one of the Siegfried-motifs, the horn-call, but grown so robust and weighty, so firm, strong, commanding, that it hardly more than reminds us of the youthful Lock-weise, fluttering forth hopefully to find a "dear companion."
What chiefly lives in it are certain poignant phrases, certain eloquent bars, a glowing, winey bit of color here, a velvety phrase for the oboe or the clarinet, a sharp, brassy, pricking horn-call, a dreamy, wandering melody for the voice there. His music consists of scattered, highly polished phrases, hard, exquisite, and cold. He is pre-eminently the precieux.
It is part of the region over-ranged by the hunting-party of Hagen's devising. The horns of the hunters are heard in the distance, Siegfried's horn-call among them, and Hagen's. Our old acquaintances, the Rhine-daughters, rise to the surface of the water. They have warning or scent that Siegfried is not far, with the Ring, their stolen gold.
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