With  Freta's  exclamations  that  the  Giants  are  pursu-
ing her  the  first  suggestion  of  the  Giant  Motive  appears
(page  64,  line  3),  and  as  these  "  great,  hulking  fellows  "
enter  the  heavy,  clumsy  Giant  Motive  is  heard  in  its
entirety  (page  68,  line  i)  :


FasoU  and  Fafner  have  come  to  demand  that  Wotan
deliver  up  to  them  Freia,  according  to  his  promise  when


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IF  A  GNER'  S  M  USIC-DRA  MA  S.
they  agreed  to  build  Walhalla  for  him.  In  the  ensuing
scene,  in  which  Woian  parleys  with  the  giants,  the  Giant
Motive,  the  Walhalla  Motive,  the  Motive  of  the  Com-
pact and  the  first  bar  of  the  Freia  Motive  figure  until
FasoWs  threatening  words  (page  72,  line  i) :

"  Peace  wane  v/hen  you  break  your  compact,"

when  there  is  heard  a  version  of  the  Motive  of  Compact
characteristic  enough  to  be  distinguished  as  the  Motive
OF  Compact  v/ith  the  Giants  :

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14.
