Best One Note Endings/Orchestral or Otherwise

[Brian]

Tristan und Isolde.

Gosh.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Tristan und Isolde.

Gosh.

Tristan und Isolde concludes with a luxuriant final B major chord fully harmonized for the whole orchestra.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I am sorry to have muddies the waters...

Don't worry about it; they're full of sludge anyway.

[lukeottevanger]

Tristan und Isolde concludes with a luxuriant final B major chord fully harmonized for the whole orchestra.

The true Wagnerite will see this as evidence of his genius - even his single notes are bigger than everyone elses.

[greg]

Xenakis' Jonchaies.....

[karlhenning]

The true Wagnerite will see this as evidence of his genius - even his single notes are bigger than everyone elses.

[Mark G. Simon]

Tristan und Isolde.

Gosh.

You're thinking of just the Prelude, right?

(Of course there are rather a lot of notes that come after that)

[lukeottevanger]

Or maybe he just plays the whole opera backwards.....

[karlhenning]

Or maybe he just plays the whole opera backwards.....

"Paul is a dead man, miss him, miss him"?

[lukeottevanger]

Playing Wagner backwards......opens up almost too many comic possibilities, doesn't it?

[Kullervo]

Playing Wagner backwards......opens up almost too many comic possibilities, doesn't it?

Your wife returns to you, your dog comes back to you, and you get your job back?

[Mark G. Simon]

Playing Wagner backwards......opens up almost too many comic possibilities, doesn't it?

"I..... buried..... Brahms".

[lukeottevanger]

'I'm....really....Jewish'

[Kullervo]

"Meyerbeer ist Gott"

[lukeottevanger]

'Wait....till....you....hear....Saul....'

[greg]

"My vibrational fields are insufficient, so I try to overcompensate with grandiose music dramas....."

[Brian]

"Meyerbeer ist Gott"

[Sef]

If Symphonies dying away into nothing were allowed then Pettersson 6,7 and 8 are classics, though if you stipulate the one note variety I think only the 6 will qualify with the final bass.

[Symphonien]

In terms of symphonies Kancheli is the first to spring to mind for me. The ending of No. 5, although it is written in the score as harmonised with a couple other notes, these will not really sustain for that long and what you hear is essentially three lonely notes on the solo harpsichord to end the symphony. Really a beautiful ending, and fitting considering the symphony begins with the harpsichord by itself as well.

[hornteacher]

Neptune from the Planets
The New World Symphony
Appalachian Spring (sort of)