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Beethoven Symphony Analysis
Dear Mr. Arrayan Last weekend my Fine Arts class attended the Oregon Symphony’s presentation of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. The piece was monumental and included a tribute to the recently departed conductor James DePreist. The symphony played one of his favorites, “Adagietto” from Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, and Benjamin Britten’s “Ballad of Heroes”. The piece from Gustav Mahler was very dynamic and only included a timbre of string instruments that were well blended. The piece included very long drawn out notes that made it “a bittersweet song of love and longing dedicated to the composer's wife, it's emotionally affecting music in any event” according to James Mcquillen of the Oregonian. The second piece from Britten was more dissonant
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