Is it just me, or does Beethoven's 5th 1st Movement NEVER get old?!
Question: It's just that every time I listen to it I always get the same twinge of "WOW this is AWESOME." I was just wondering if anyone else is like that, or does it get old to others?
I know it's played everywhere but it doesn't matter to me.
Answers: It's just that every time I listen to it I always get the same twinge of "WOW this is AWESOME." I was just wondering if anyone else is like that, or does it get old to others?
I know it's played everywhere but it doesn't matter to me.
That's the reason this music is still around and loved two hundred years after it was written.
Don't think RAP will be around in two hundred years.
nope it's been appreciated for more than 100 years already and there's no reason why it wont be appreciated for the next years to come.
We did a listening exam on Symphonies 3,5 and 7 memorized. so, it was played in the room everyday for a month. the exams already finished and we still love listening to them.
Well, seemingly not, at least according to the two responders above me; so I guess from their perspective, it isn't just you.
But for me, it has gotten old, and I never listen to it anymore. It, the third, sixth, seventh and ninth, the old stand-by war-horses if you will, I never listen to anymore.
His lighter ones, #'s 1,2, 4 and 8, I derive some enjoyment form listening to, but only occasionally: guess I've just heard them too much, and have become jaded to their allure.
Sorry,
Alberich
It's a piece of genius, really. The three short notes followed by one longer note motif is empoyed throught the movement, and it becomes infectios like a great Bach Fugue. Not only that, the same motif is used in the other 3 movements. In the second movement, it is in the major mode, and greatly elongated. In the third movement, it is the horn call near the start. In the last movement, it begains the secondary theme.
I love that music to a passion and I am very moved by the music. I relax to classical music because I has a stress problem.
Well, I remember when we had a student conductor who was performing this piece and I am pretty sure I got sick of practicing it with him over and over... Poor guy, he was a nervous perfectionist so we played the beginning way too many times. But other than that, I don't think it does get old.