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- From: velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francois Velde)
- Subject: Re: Most drawn-out ending (Was: Best endings)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.220110.7201@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <1992Dec19.230054.4363@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <1h2tdlINNgjq@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec21.145652.10525@osf.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:01:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.145652.10525@osf.org> coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren) writes:
- >> 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.
-
- One charitable interpretation for the ending of Beethoven's 5th (applicable
- to the 3d as well) is that the worlds he opens with his symphonies are
- so vast that it is hard for him to close the doors. How, indeed, could he
- contain such immense oceans of sounds and emotions within a mere hour of
- mortal time (like "the vasty fields of France in this cockpit")?
-
- Or, it could be a spoof.
-
- Speaking of which, Satie has a send-up of these unending endings in one of
- his piano pieces, but I can't remember which.
-
- --
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- Francois Velde
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