#Symphony No.5

[universalzone]

Sheet Music Infinity Scarf Sheet music pages are printed on a soft cream-colored poly-viscose fabric with a silky look. This scarf features 10 sheet music pages from the world's greatest composers : Frederic Chopin - Nocturne Schubert - Sonata in E♭ Major J.S. Bach - Minuet in G J.S. Bach - Aria - Suite No.3 in D R.Wagner - Here Comes The Bride Ludwig van Beethoven - Ode to Joy (9th Symphony) Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.5 Antonio Vivaldi - Concert in E major Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major

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[lovely-hikari-cosplay]

Abbacchio doodles because I felt like drawing but also did NOT feel like drawing

[gothlisteningclub]

Goth Listening Club Day #38: Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery

LISTEN ON : SPOTIFY / APPLE MUSIC / BANDCAMP

[tinyicis]

A world where classical pieces are children (sort of) of their own composers

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 2

Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 from QuickSpot

vs.

Dawn Awakens from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

Note: The propaganda may contain spoilers for Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.

Beethoven's Symphony No. 5:

This is the boss music for this game. Yes, this spot the difference game has boss levels, yes, the music that plays during it is a remix of Beethoven's fifth, and yes, it goes insanely hard.

Dawn Awakens:

This song plays during the ending credits only after a second playthrough. Also I'm pretty sure the people who are singing are Lehran and Altina. The fact we are able to hear Lehran sing after learning that he was forced to hide who he truly is while having to watch his people get massacred and he couldn't do a thing, is really tragic.

fun fact! they are singing in japanese backwards! anyways here are the translated lyrics: The long sleep has ended A dazzling light fills the sky Radiant, unfulfilled dream, dream Setting out, resolute, go, go I hold your promise in my hands I show you a future full of hope Resound, my voice, far and high The birdsong The distant sky The distant sky

[recapitulation]

mahler 7 has entered my top 3 mahler symphonies uwu

[el-rombo]

I forgot I was listening to Shostakovich’s 5th as the third movement ended (it’s really quiet for a really long time) and then got jumpscared by the fourth movement. 11/10 I’ve loved this symphony since my first listen and I will be surprised by it again.

[desos-records]

I blacked out and woke up with this in front of me. I claim no responsibility.

[not-groped-by-an-angel]

I still haven't fucking finished s2 of good omens but I have some Big Thoughts about something that happened in the first episode regarding Aziraphale and the Shostakovich symphony he picks up.

To start, I love Shostakovich. I think he is one of the most powerful, moving, artistic composers we have ever had the pleasure of experiencing. He is well known for political tensions and commentary, especially since he was operating under a repressive regime that took it upon themselves to determine what he could and could not produce.

Prior to writing Symphony No. 5 in D (our good friend Aziraphale's pick), Shostakovich had all stage performances of his work banned by Stalin for an opera that was sympathetic to someone who had committed crimes under the pressures of the bourgeois society.

Under the threat of arrest and exile to labor camps, Shostakovich was determined to write music that would fall within Stalin's expectations without his true thoughts being silenced. He laid the groundwork of the piece, saying, "The theme of my Fifth Symphony is the making of a man. I saw him, with all his experience, at the center of the work, which is lyrical from beginning to end. In the finale the tragically tense impulses of the earlier movements are resolved in optimism and joy of living." This was technically, what Stalin wanted. Technically, it fell in line. Technically, it could be used as propaganda.

But here's the thing. Shostakovich is a god damned genius. There are many interpretations and arguments over the exact meaning of his work but the general consensus seems to be that this work was making a mockery of Stalin, a hollow show of someone who was supposed to have found this freedom in his own happiness but is in reality only being forced to go along. There are entire theses dedicated to examining the artistry this symphony is brimming with that allows this to come across, but suffice it to say that Shostakovich had not given up his voice.

Here comes Aziraphale, spending most of his life under the thumb of a strict, heartless governing body that expected conformity and nothing less. Aziraphale, who has rebelled quietly for centuries, who faced his higher ups with forced smiles and polite nods that allowed him to slide under the radar and do what he knew was right.

So, end of season 1, he's caught. Called out by the oppressors, threatened, reminded to conform, conform, conform even as they abandon him. Aziraphale is digging this little niche for himself to find the joy that could come with perhaps, maybe, not being held under such stringent guidelines as long as he keeps his head down, and here comes bare-ass Gabriel, dragging with him right back into the mud.

It's important to note here there are two warring opinions about the performance of the very end of the symphony. One pushes and pushes, ending in something that could be, while frantic, truly joyous. However, some artists' interpretation pulls back, the same notes but menacing and monotonous. Did our hero truly find the light? Or did he fall, once again, under the boots of those who seek to control him?

It sets a tone for the rest of the season. These paths are just as readily available to Aziraphale as well, but both of them have consequences. Both have loss. What is the appropriate balance of loss and life?

TL;DR, yes, I have taken the 14 seconds Aziraphale goes "oh goodie shostakovich" and extrapolated a whole ass narrative about war and duality and subterfuge.

Go listen to Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 by none other than Dmitri Dmitryevich Shostakovich for a good and/or bad time.

[aschenblumen]

Gustav Mahler, Symphony nº 5 in C sharp minor (Adagietto). Leonard Bernstein, director

[culturevulturette]

Rest in peace, Peter Schickele. Thank you for bringing us the magnificent body of work of PDQ Bach, the last and least of Bach's sons. I think he was the 13th of 12. Anyway, this is one of his masterpieces. Enjoy!

[aduckwithears]

Everything is meant, vinyl edition

Umm you guys? I was just trying to listen to music (something classical, no more heartbreak songs, but let’s keep it from the GO playlist - Shostakovich it is!) So I pulled up the Symphony # 5 in D Minor... the very record that Aziraphale gets from Maggie’s shop... and was hit by this from Apple Music:

So of course I turned to Wikipedia (not being a classical music expert by any means) and was hit by this:

And either I’ve completely fallen down the rabbit hole (very possible) or this is statement about Aziraphale’s challenges this season. Or maybe his whole existence? What else could it be from the “everything is meant” crew? They could pick literally any classical music here. But more specifically it is literally the Symphony when Shostakovich gives up some of his ideals, goes back, fits in, and makes good (for a while) in the Soviet Union. Gosh, sound familiar???

Anyway this was all in my brain so now it can be in yours too. I’m still going to go listen to the music. 

[symphonybracket]

Was the Mahler 2 the first time people guessed wrong (or when the correct answer wasn't the runaway winner)?

Yes it is! I was surprised! But then again Mahler 2 is the symphony I am most intimately familiar with so I'm not the greatest judge what is and isn't difficult. I guess I kind of picked a less "obvious" part, as in not from the finale. Or a death shriek. lol