Quiz: Mystery scores

[(poco) Sforzando]

Not closely enough if you don't.

Have you met Teresa yet? she also likes to have orgasms while listening to classical music.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

The moments certainly lift my spirits. But, so far, nothing more.

[Harry]

Does anyone have the amazing, and sexual, climactic moments of the Shostakovich Sixth symphony scherzo? One of the few scores I followed closely years ago.

You have those moments with a nice woman Sean, but hardly with scores.

[Guido]

Not closely enough, if you imagine anything sexual about it.

This act of denying everything that Sean says, is getting a little tiresome now Karl. You know it might be time to stop when you start telling people that they are wrong about their own reactions to music...

[karlhenning]

This act of denying everything that Sean says, is getting a little tiresome now Karl. You know it might be time to stop when you start telling people that they are wrong about their own reactions to music...

Thanks, Guido.  I apologize, personally, to you if I have allowed it to seem that I am quarreling with Sean's personal reactions to music;  though, in fact, it seems strange to me if you feel that I do not permit everyone his own perception of . . . whatever (something which I believe I made amply clear in various remarks on the Gibberish thread).  I am such a dullard, though, Guido, that it has seemed to me that Sean was claiming this to be a property of the music;  what an ass Shostakovich was, writing a sexual symphony in the Soviet Union when the Terror was not quite passed! The chump would have deserved execution.

I will cease to try to engage Sean in intelligent discourse, Guido. Your message reminds me of the pointlessness of that exercise.

[Sean]

Teresa?

[(poco) Sforzando]

You have those moments with a nice woman Sean, but hardly with scores.

I fear for the stains on Sean's copy.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Teresa?

Aye, Teresa. Surely a genius like you doesn't need more exposition than that.

And seriously, Sean: this is a really good thread. Would you mind not derailing it?

[lukeottevanger]

I have a (stain-free) copy of the score. Let me see if I can track down the moment in question...

[lukeottevanger]

Is this the passage you mean? - hillariously, my scanner seems to have prudishly gone soft-focus on the climactic chord in question!

[lukeottevanger]

...very beginning of post-coital diminuendo.

[lukeottevanger]

That's what Monica Lewinsky said, though...

I'm with Karl - I can't really hear this as sexual. But if you're really looking for such things, Sean, try that John Adams one I posted long ago - I also put up a clip of the passage in question somewhere deep in this thread. Oh yes, here it is

[Guido]

hillariously, my scanner seems to have prudishly gone soft-focus on the climactic chord in question!

Haha Luke!

Thanks, Guido.  I apologize, personally, to you if I have allowed it to seem that I am quarreling with Sean's personal reactions to music;  though, in fact, it seems strange to me if you feel that I do not permit everyone his own perception of . . . whatever (something which I believe I made amply clear in various remarks on the Gibberish thread).  I am such a dullard, though, Guido, that it has seemed to me that Sean was claiming this to be a property of the music;  what an ass Shostakovich was, writing a sexual symphony in the Soviet Union when the Terror was not quite passed! The chump would have deserved execution.

I will cease to try to engage Sean in intelligent discourse, Guido. Your message reminds me of the pointlessness of that exercise.

I didn't mean to upset you, and this is not an attack on you, just a general observation about your generally hostile attitude to some posters on this board (e.g. previously 71dB). It's not a matter of who we agree with or not, but rather the way we approach people with wildly differing opinions. Some people might find those sorts of posts rather alienating.

Anyway, not to worry too much! I'm sure that Sean doesn't really mind - he must like the reactions he gets on some level or he wouldn't keep coming back! I'd forgotten how enjoyable the sixth symphony was actually. Listened to the tenth twice yesterday - what a piece!

[karlhenning]

But Guido, I am not hostile to Sean in the least; I have much better uses for my energies.  Nor do I think it my fault that he does not decently repay the patience of others.

[karlhenning]

And again, if Sean is finding anything "sexual" in the Shostakovich Opus 54, then that is not a matter of, erm, closeness to the score, but of his characteristic navel-gazing.

[lukeottevanger]

Oi - lest we forget, omphaloskepsis is my domain!!

[Guido]

Fair enough... I was just saying what my reaction to your posts was. I'm hardly going to tell you how to act!

Oi - lest we forget, omphaloskepsis is my domain!!

Quite!!!

[greg]

Is this the passage you mean? - hillariously, my scanner seems to have prudishly gone soft-focus on the climactic chord in question!

nice..... here i am just happy to see 2 pages of the score! 

[(poco) Sforzando]

I have removed mine, Sforzando, so if you remove your reaction, then this thread will have been cleaned up...

Children, you can come and play again! 

OK fine, Jez. I have removed my reaction, which means you can remove your reaction to my reaction, as well as your instruction to remove my original reaction, after which I can remove my reaction to your instruction to remove my reaction.

Now, if we could only remove Sean.... 

(But as this is part of my reaction to your instruction to remove my reaction, it will be removed too, so long as no one reacts to my reaction to Johan's instruction to remove my reaction.)

[lukeottevanger]

Quite!!!

(not that I've been able to devote much time to the outpost recently...)

nice..... here i am just happy to see 2 pages of the score! 

Well, get ready to explode with joy then, Greg - here are all the other pages, plus no 5 thrown in for free!!!