Beethoven at a funeral!

[oboe_15]

Well, I don't know why I have been thinking about this, but does anyone have a Beethoven work that they want played at thier funeral? I know this is a wierd thing to ask, but why not, I can't think of another topic and I actually have some time on my hands between exams. I have a song by Schubert and I don't know the name of it, it is in my C.D collection somewhere?!?!

Beethoven Rocks!

oboe_15

[Rod]

I believe we've had a discussion along these lines already I'm afraid.



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"If I were but of noble birth..." - Rod Corkin

[Peter]

Try using the search facility on this site - type in funeral and there are some good recommendations from Rod. I might shock you and choose Mozart or Purcell instead!

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'Man know thyself'

[This message has been edited by Peter (edited 07-18-2001).]

[Immortal Beloved]

Originally posted by oboe_15:
Well, I don't know why I have been thinking about this, but does anyone have a Beethoven work that they want played at thier funeral? I know this is a wierd thing to ask, but why not, I can't think of another topic and I actually have some time on my hands between exams. I have a song by Schubert and I don't know the name of it, it is in my C.D collection somewhere?!?!

Beethoven Rocks!

oboe_15

That is the strangest thing I ever read...I might as well pick his seventh symphony Movement #2

[Claudie MICAULT]

Well, I would like to hear his whole music once more !

Claudie

[Doink]

I think moonlight sonata should be
played at his funeral, which is the first
movement of Sonata Quasi una fantasia.
It capture the desparity and the fantasy
Beethoven conjured in his mind.
That piece is touching.

[This message has been edited by Doink (edited 08-07-2001).]

[Rod]

Originally posted by Doink:
I think moonlight sonata should be
played at his funeral, which is the first
movement of Sonata Quasi una fantasia.
It capture the desparity and the fantasy
Beethoven conjured in his mind.
That piece is touching.

And yet it has oft been expressed (here included) that this is a romantic piece!


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"If I were but of noble birth..." - Rod Corkin

[Jin]

Proof yet that, to put it crudely, people "hear differently." But that seems to contradict the notion that different sounds and timbres do elicit universal reactions.

[Peter]

Originally posted by Jin:
Proof yet that, to put it crudely, people "hear differently." But that seems to contradict the notion that different sounds and timbres do elicit universal reactions.

True - of course two people looking at the same thing react in different ways also. I think on a very basic level people respond in the same way - if you play a minor chord they will say it sounds sad and a major chord happy.

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'Man know thyself'

[Rod]

Originally posted by Peter:
True - of course two people looking at the same thing react in different ways also. I think on a very basic level people respond in the same way - if you play a minor chord they will say it sounds sad and a major chord happy.

Yet Handel wrote marches 'for the dead' in the major key and they still manage to sound quite gloomy!

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"If I were but of noble birth..." - Rod Corkin

[Peter]

Originally posted by Rod:
Yet Handel wrote marches 'for the dead' in the major key and they still manage to sound quite gloomy!

Yes it's quite possible to evoke a gloomy mood with the Major key - in fact one of the most awesome passages in all music is in the major - the recapitulation in the first movement of the 9th!



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'Man know thyself'