Beethoven and his nine symphonies . and the first part of the Scherzo ends with a Coda containingdelicious alternations of the strings and the wind and apassage of unequalled lightness and grace. The Trio, or alternative to the Scherzo, is mainly in thehands of the horns, the other instruments being chieflyoccupied in interludes between the strains of those mostinteresting and most human members of the orchestra. Andsurely, if ever horns talked like flesh and blood, and in theirown human accents, they do it here. Beginning in thisplayful way—sportful, though hardly in allusion to fieldsport/ a
Beethoven and his nine symphonies . and the first part of the Scherzo ends with a Coda containingdelicious alternations of the strings and the wind and apassage of unequalled lightness and grace. The Trio, or alternative to the Scherzo, is mainly in thehands of the horns, the other instruments being chieflyoccupied in interludes between the strains of those mostinteresting and most human members of the orchestra. Andsurely, if ever horns talked like flesh and blood, and in theirown human accents, they do it here. Beginning in thisplayful way—sportful, though hardly in allusion to fieldsport/ as some critics have supposed— No. 40. Ob. & Str. i p m z # Cor. 8f, k 4 ci ££ tt *=fc i cres. A f v i- 3S r- * rr s P* rirJ-ffcP they rise by degrees in seriousness and poetry till they reach THE TRIO—HORNS. 77 an affecting climax, fully in keeping with the heroiccharacter of the poem— No. wrf^p What is it makes these last few notes so touching, soalmost awful ? There is in them a feeling of infinitudeor eternity such as is conveyed by no other passage evenin Beethovens music. To the writer the notes speak thelofty, mystical, yearning tone of Wordsworths beautifulflines :— Our destiny, our beings heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there ;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort, and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be. * The accurate tying of these minims is one of the corrections which we oweto Breitkopf s complete Edition, and is, so far, a set-off to the frequent disregardof Beethovens minute directions to be found in that otherwise splendidpublication. t From the Prelude, Book Sixth; the ? Crossing of the Alps. Touching linesand too little known.—The poet, says Mr. Carlyle, has an infinitude in him;communicates an Unendlichkeit, a certain character of infinitude to whatsoeverhe delineates. Heroes and Hero Worship (p. 129,
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