"In the Minor Mode"

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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

With all respect due CB and other commentators, a recent concert with Masur conducting Bruckner 9 (SFSO) revived for me the subject of symphonies in minor keys being "better".
Here's the key progression:
1st movement: D minor (home key of the work)--modulation through several keys back to d minor; rest followed by 2nd subject in A major;
modulation to D minor; coda in F major, again after rest.
Scherzo: D minor but with many dissonances; rest and shift to F# major.
Adagio: D minor, shifting to E major; coda in E major.
A quirk of seating placed me and my wife over the bell of the tuba, in front of the three trombones and three trumpets, but behind 9 horns (later changing to 5 horns and 4 Wagner tubas in the Adagio), inundating me in the direct sound of 16 fortissimo brass instruments (remember that horns normally produce only reflected energy off the back wall of the stage).
BTW Masur is a master of the Ninth. He conducts the Fourth in Boston next week, attend if you can, listen on radio (Clark!) otherwise. Highly recommended.

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Topic - "In the Minor Mode" - Brian Cheney 15:56:32 04/07/05 (23)

Re: "In the Minor Mode" - Soundmind 04:44:27 04/09/05 (0)

I'm impressed... - C.B. 03:58:24 04/08/05 (17)

Re: I'm impressed... - Brian Cheney 08:16:13 04/08/05 (15)

Actually... - C.B. 09:04:09 04/08/05 (14)

Re: Actually... - Brian Cheney 09:16:00 04/08/05 (3)

The jolt in a key change - D Harvey 13:25:47 04/08/05 (2)

Re: I'm impressed... - Soundmind 04:37:12 04/08/05 (0)

Re: "In the Minor Mode" - Soundmind 16:19:27 04/07/05 (1)

Re: "In the Minor Mode" - Brian Cheney 18:54:40 04/07/05 (0)

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