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In Reply to: RE: Depressing music... posted by genungo on June 23, 2012 at 04:46:12
The last movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony
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I doubt that most people would want to listen to truly depressing music at all, or at least not very often. A few people might find ego reinforcement within truly depressing things but those are the people and things that most of us try to stay away from.
"He was one of those men who live in poverty so that their lines of questioning may continue." - John Steinbeck
Edits: 06/24/12
There's a certain nobility in the suffering expressed at the end of the Pathétique Symphony IMHO.
OTOH, I always remember the article in Stereo Review (back in the 60's I think), the "Guide to Party Conversation about Classical Music", which had ready-made phrases you could say - even if you didn't know anything about the subject. For Tchaikovsky, it was: "Tchaikovsky? Ah yes - such marvelous self pity!". ;-)
. . . "that's a sad, sad song!" ;-)
The utter hopelessness and despair of the end of that movement is unlike anything else I know of in music. And yet, it's not just hopelessness and despair: there's a beauty to it that attracts repeated listenings (if you can take it emotionally).
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