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- From: basinski@biosci.arizona.edu (Mark Basinski)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: Most drawn-out ending (Was: Best endings)
- Message-ID: <basinski-211292153613@lully.biosci.arizona.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:29:26 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.230054.4363@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec19.230054.4363@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>,
- zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski) wrote:
- >
- >
- > 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.
- >
- You are a barbarian, no question. But you're also wrong, because it is
- the last movement of the 8th symphony that is the most ridiculous, and
- surely intentionally repetitious and bombastic Beethoven ending. This is
- self-parody at it's musical funniest. Really, listen to that movement
- with that in mind and you'll die laughing, because Beethoven is making
- a huge joke - the "wrong note" (C#) that keeps popping up, the incredible
- imbalance of a coda longer than the exposition, development and recap
- combined, and then the interminable thrashing on the tonic at the end...
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