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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