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- Subject: Re: Most drawn-out ending (Was: Best endings)
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- From: Robert Haskins <RHASKINS@UMAB.BITNET>
- Date: Wednesday, 23 Dec 1992 10:01:32 EST
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- coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren) writes:
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- > I think of all the "famous" pieces that I love, the one whose failure
- > to end in a timely fashion :-) annoys me most is the Dvorak 9th. I
- > keep thinking how wonderful it would be if the final cadence were the
- > last version of the chord sequence taken from the opening of the
- > second movement, with that slightly bizarre "Neapolitan" chord.
- > Instead he insists on piling on the bombast,revisiting the opening of
- > the last movement in several guises, and going up and down that silly
- > major arpeggio, etc.
-
- Yes, YES! My sentiments exactly! That _STUPID_ major sixth chord in
- those trombones!
-
- Bob
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