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Left: Titurel Receives the Grail and Spear, oil painting by Franz Stassen. The Angels motif is a derivative of the Titurel motif (#34) and therefore belongs to the family of the Faith motif. It first appears when Gurnemanz tells how angels gave the Grail into the care of the pious Titurel. Because of its appearance after the opening of Titurel's coffin in the third act, von Wolzogen called it "the Holy Salute for Titurel". Lorenz distinguished between two variants: the Angels motif (Engelmotiv), as the first part of the more extended theme quoted above, and a variant of the first two-bar phrase that is essentially an arpeggio seventh-chord (Weihegruss).
References: von Wolzogen ex.25, Newman ex.16, ENO ex.14.
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Angels or Holy Salute