RE: Sections of songs that make you freeze in joy
August 13, 2017 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2017 at 5:52 pm by bennyboy.)
(August 3, 2017 at 2:25 am)Alex K Wrote: I have these moments in various genres, but since rock/pop is already well represented, something classical:
The return of the main theme around 8:00 and the change in mood and key before ca. 12:30
0:46
If you've ever been to a live symphony, you know what a racket the musicians make when practicing or tuning before the conductor arrives onstage. To me, the moment up to 0:46 is meant to simulate that-- it is kind of like the slow bubbling of the musical primordial soup, and at 0:46, a human or maybe a Greek god spontaneously erupts out of it, fully formed. I really do believe that this is partly autobiographical by Beethoven-- he's showing how his great and powerful ideas come crashing into the world!