Thomas Pynchon on joy in music

[Dave Monroe]

See http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/music/nineteenth-century-music/invention-beethoven-and-rossini-historiography-analysis-criticism

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have often wondered about Stanley Kubrick using Beethoven and Rossini to
> such great contrapuntal affect in his film version of Clockwork Orange.
> Gravity's Rainbow and Clockwork Orange came out literally within months of
> each other, so I sincerely doubt whether one could have influenced the
> other. And yet, both extremely important works of late modernist art feature
> this intriguing musical counterpoint, rather explicitly at that.
> Interesting, no?
>
> On Aug 16, 2015 3:57 AM, "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> “‘The point is,’ cutting off Gustav’s usually indignant scream, ‘a
>> person feels good listening to Rossini. All you feel like listening to
>> Beethoven is going out and invading Poland. Ode to Joy indeed. The man
>> didn’t even have a sense of humor. I tell you,’ shaking his skinny old
>> fist, ‘there is more of the Sublime in the snare-drum part of La Gazza
>> Ladra than in the whole Ninth Symphony. With Rossini, the whole point
>> is that lovers always get together, isolation is overcome, and like it
>> or not that is the one great centripetal movement of the World.
>> Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power,
>> love occurs. All the shit is transmuted to gold. The walls are
>> breached, the balconies are scaled—listen!’”
>>
>> Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
>>
>>
>> http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2015/03/almanac-thomas-pynchon-on-joy-in-music.html
>>
>> Beethoven & Rossini
>>
>>
>> http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Beethoven_%26_Rossini
>>
>> The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini:
>> Historiography, Analysis, Criticism
>>
>>
>> http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/music/nineteenth-century-music/invention-beethoven-and-rossini-historiography-analysis-criticism
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