GR 716.23: Beethoven's Fifth

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 3 20:58:16 CST 2002


This has been battling it out with "Sax-o-mo-phone"
for Opus 67 in C-minor supremacy in my mind's ear all
day now.  Anyway, this seemed interesting, maybe even
relevant, so ...

http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/fifth.html

--- Alan Westrope <awestrop at nyx.net> wrote:

> I just reread _GR_ and noticed something I
> previously missed in the "Krupp wingding."  At
> 716.23 we read, "Bodine in a light singsong
> 'le-pro-sy [down a third to] loaf'."   Pig's surely
> singing these words to the tune of the opening motif
> from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.  Who'd'a' thunk it?

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