Beethoven vs. Rossini

[Dave Monroe]

We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick

https://books.google.com/books?id=qRuRAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199767663.do

“Gustav is a composer. For months he has been carrying on a raging
debate with Säure over who is better, Beethoven or Rossini. Säure is
for Rossini. “I’m not so much for Beethoven qua Beethoven,” Gustav
argues, “but as he represents the German dialectic, the incorporation
of more and more notes into the scale, culminating with dodecaphonic
democracy, where all notes get an equal hearing. Beethoven was one of
the architects of musical freedom—he submitted to the demands of
history, despite his deafness. While Rossini was retiring at the age
of 36, womanizing and getting fat, Beethoven was living a life filled
with tragedy and grandeur.”

“So?” is Säure’s customary answer to that one. “Which would you rather
do? 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 to 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!” It was a night in early
May, and the final bombardment of Berlin was in progress. Säure had to
shout his head off. “The Italian girl is in Algiers, the Barber’s in
the crockery, the magpie’s stealing everything in sight! The World is
rushing together. …”

https://theoreticallyevil.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/beethoven-vs-rossini/

Beethoven: The Man Who Freed Music

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Beethoven_%26_Rossini

The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon

https://books.google.com/books?id=U7lX0wPvhocC&pg=PA281#v=onepage&q&f=false

A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel

https://books.google.com/books?id=fK73JkjMDmQC&pg=PA247#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ethical Diversions: The Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish,
DeLillo, and Spiegelman

https://books.google.com/books?id=XQraAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q&f=false

Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom

https://books.google.com/books?id=469pAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false

Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno

https://books.google.com/books?id=84GEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false

Novel Listening: Background Sound and the Technologies of Aural Control

https://books.google.com/books?id=9H-_5vdwSDMC&pg=PA181#v=onepage&q&f=false
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