Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ur-tut.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!rwfi From: rwfi@ur-tut.UUCP (Robert Fink) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: tone poems (Mozart's 40th Symphony) Message-ID: <134@ur-tut.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 18:40:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ur-tut.134 Posted: Tue Sep 24 18:40:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 08:24:09 EDT References: <730@charm.UUCP> <31800001@ISM780.UUCP> <256@cylixd.UUCP> <834@whuxlm.UUCP> <5674@tekecs.UUCP> Reply-To: rwfi@ur-tut.UUCP (Robert Fink) Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center Lines: 37 In article <5674@tekecs.UUCP> jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes: >> A librarian once taught me the words to the first movement of >> Mozart's 40th... >> >> "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Mozart...." >> > >Then there's > > "This is the symphony, that Schubert never ever finished..." (2nd theme) > >Doesn't scan as well as the Mozart. But then there's Bach WTC:1 G minor fugue: > > "Myare filthy - and I don't give a damn!" > >Maybe this should be a forbidden subject... > > Jeff Winslow > "Why do you like the Socratic method?" Well, as long as we're going to do this, we might as well do it right: Mozart Gm: "Its a bird, its a plane, no its Mozart" Schubert Unifinished: "This is the symphony, that Schubert wrote and never finished, This is the symphony, that Schubert wrote--" (get it?) If you'll all sing these for yourselves (quietly, please, don't disturb your neighbors!), you'll see that they scan almost perfectly. I've got more, but I'll spare everyone (unless, of course......). Bob Fink