Beethoven and his nine symphonies . ut all suggesting the delights of the life of beside these Beethoven has managed, with the mostextraordinary skill, to fill his score with an atmosphereof sound which conveys the glories of summer, and the busy1 noise of life swarming on every sense. The first of thesemotifs—the principal subject of the movement with which itopens in the first violins—begins as follows; to end (asBeethoven generally ended) in a lovely consecutive melody-—that of the last three bars of the passage— No. 19. Viol. 1. i s b p 1 h-nsiCYjTrl * j. v ih Iffi^ hi h *l ?£ =
Beethoven and his nine symphonies . ut all suggesting the delights of the life of beside these Beethoven has managed, with the mostextraordinary skill, to fill his score with an atmosphereof sound which conveys the glories of summer, and the busy1 noise of life swarming on every sense. The first of thesemotifs—the principal subject of the movement with which itopens in the first violins—begins as follows; to end (asBeethoven generally ended) in a lovely consecutive melody-—that of the last three bars of the passage— No. 19. Viol. 1. i s b p 1 h-nsiCYjTrl * j. v ih Iffi^ hi h *l ?£ = £ Mm gfirffr m £ cres. « •zX: ores. fP^ P1 THE SHAKES. GLUCK S OEPHEE 203 This is supported by the lower strings, in the figure givenas No. 16, and by holding notes of the horns. The melodyis then taken by the clarinet, the lower strings adopting thesemiquaver figure (No. 17), while the first violins give aseries of shakes on the upper B flat and C, and the horns asyncopated pedal of a charming vagueness— No. tr. jJ.^M. v~ ?5=^ m gBzjjy-T jiii i ^J^S* m j hj^i both shakes and pedal being prominent features throughoutthe Andante. The syncopated notes of the pedal are heardcontinually through the movement, in bassoons, oboes, andother instruments successively. The shakes, and the gracenotes in the quotation, bear an important part, as they some-how suggest heat. It is curious that Gluck in the beautifulair, Quelle belle jour, in Orphee, sung in the brilliant sun-light of Elysium, uses a similar expedient, with a similar we have the following elegant phrase, given out, likethose just quoted, in the first violin— No. 1. 1* I-, ^ E- ^_ ^ —s P-i ? J~fd 7! njT I—h-— — •J dolce -^ j h^^ =; i—i ? — i Q\ 204 SIXTH SYMPHONY. the graceful and soothing flow of which is immediately re-peated by the clarinet, while an accompaniment is added abovefor the first violin, with the bassoon and cello in octaves— No. 22. Violin 1.,. 1 h
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