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Robert Peters <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>What are some of your magic moments of music? I am very interested
>in hearing from you.
- The opening theme of the slow movement in Beethoven's Hammerklavier
sonata, where the melody reaches up to a B as the harmony moves to a
sunny G major, then sinks back to F# minor.
- The seventh bar of the last movement of Brahms' 4th Symphony, where
on the way down to the tonic E, the bass line moves not to F#, as
you'd expect, but an F natural, creating a gloriously nasty
augmented sixth chord. Oh, to be a contrabassonist.
- While we're on Brahms, the spine-chilling "Denn alles Fleisch, es
ist wie Gras" refrain in the Deutches Requiem.
- The chorus entering with "Watchmen tell us of the night" at the end
of the first movement of Ives' 4th.
- The trombones blaring out the 'statue theme' in thirds while the
strings and winds (not to mention the ghostly Ondes Martenot) swoop
and shimmer, in Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.
- The last few minutes of Steve Reich's "The Four Sections": a giant
inhuman machine in five walking over our heads.
- Robert Fripp spending around five minutes to ascend a chromatic
scale in King Crimson's "Starless".
- Black Francis wailing, "Come on pilgrim, you KNOW he LOVES you!" as
the rest of the band holds their breath in the Pixies' "Levitate
Me".
Dan Schmidt | http://www.dfan.org
Honest Bob CD now available! | http://www.dfan.org/honestbob/cd.html
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