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- From: gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: The BEST finale!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.041148.8622@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 04:11:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.093749.279@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <BzHM0v.8HC@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
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- In article <BzHM0v.8HC@cmcl2.nyu.edu> tony@cns.nyu.edu writes:
- >In article 279@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl, vosse@ruls41.LeidenUniv.nl (Theo Vosse) writes:
- >> BTW, is there any finale that simply stops, i.e. does not die away
- >> and does not reach a climax as well, but which is still worthwhile?
- >
- >In the category of "unexpected but cool" endings you have to put the Scherzo
- >of Beethoven's 7th. This movement starts out as if it will be a standard ABA
- >movement (scherzo, trio, scherzo). Unexpectedly, Beethoven adds another BA
- >(i.e. the trio is repeated, and the scherzo reappears for a third time). Then,
- >just to top if off, he pretends to begin the trio for a *third* time (has he
- >*completely* lost it, folks?), and then chops off the movement with four brisk
- >chords. Very effective.
- >
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- > Tony Movshon
- >
- >Internet: movshon@nyu.edu Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- > Center for Neural Science
- > New York University
- >Phone: (212) 998-7880 4 Washington Place, room 809
- >Fax: (212) 995-4183 New York, NY 10003
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- The scherzo of the fourth does something like this as well. I also no-
- minate the last movement for a great finale
-