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- From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- Subject: Re: Most drawn-out ending (Was: Best endings)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.145652.10525@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Dec19.230054.4363@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <1h2tdlINNgjq@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:56:52 GMT
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- > zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski) writes:
- >
- >
- > >I'm gonna get flamed for this, but...
- >
- > >Beethoven's 5th Symphony.
- >
- > >Sounds like it's going to wrap up about five different times in the finale.
-
- I've always found the (excessive?) bombast that ends the Beethoven 5th
- to be somewhat humorous, and I'm prepared to believe that Beethoven
- intended it that way. I love it, by the way.
-
- I think of all the "famous" pieces that I love, the one whose failure
- to end in a timely fashion :-) annoys me most is the Dvorak 9th. I
- keep thinking how wonderful it would be if the final cadence were the
- last version of the chord sequence taken from the opening of the
- second movement, with that slightly bizarre "Neapolitan" chord.
- Instead he insists on piling on the bombast,revisiting the opening of
- the last movement in several guises, and going up and down that silly
- major arpeggio, etc.
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