Sunrise Symphonies?

[Cato]

Dudes!  Dudettes!

How often do you wake up with the finale of  Bruckner's Fifth Symphony rattling across your corpus callosum?   

Or anything else?   

This morning I awoke with the last third of the slow movement from Beethoven's Third Symphony playing in my inner ears, as if the work had started about 35 minutes earlier.

One could find this ominously portentous, or portentously ominous, if one believed in omens outside of lesser Gregory Peck movies.

So tell us: which works have you heard while refusing the arms of Morpheus, or Morphea, as the sun also rises?  Do you wake up in the middle of the night with ballets or Brunhildes in your ears?

If you are a composer, do you wake up with original things roaring for immortality with pen and paper?

[m_gigena]

When I woke up yesterday my mind was broadcasting the finale from the first movement of Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. However, the double stop triplets were not being played at normal speed, but probably at 1/3 of the speed marked by the score.

[DavidW]

Since I listened to the Archduke Trio on my b-day it's been rattling around in my head ever since.  I'm finally purging it though with some Tool.

[Cato]

Since I listened to the Archduke Trio on my b-day it's been rattling around in my head ever since.  I'm finally purging it though with some Tool.

I assume you like the work quite a bit?!

The interesting thing which I did not mention earlier is that Beethoven's Third Symphony is not my favorite la-la-la from Ludwig.  I have not listened to a complete performance in over 25 years!

In any case, there it was at 5:45 A.M.!   

Manuel wrote:

When I woke up yesterday my mind was broadcasting the finale from the first movement of Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. However, the double stop triplets were not being played at normal speed, but probably at 1/3 of the speed marked by the score

So had you heard the work recently, or has it also been decades?

[karlhenning]

Not a symphony, by any means . . . but this morning my internal radio was playing:

Sometimes the world has a load of questions,
Seems like the world knows nothing at all.
The world is here, but it's out of reach;
Some people touch it, but they can't hold on . . . .

[BachQ]

So tell us: which works have you heard while refusing the arms of Morpheus, or Morphea, as the sun also rises? 

It varies depending upon the facts and circumstances of any given morning .........

[karlhenning]

Now, more in keeping with the thread title, the Beethoven Eighth Symphony!

Nothing could be finer
Than the Opus three-&-ninetier
In the mo - o - orning! . . . .

[BachQ]

Now, more in keeping with the thread title, the Beethoven Eighth Symphony!

Nothing could be finer
Than the Opus three-&-ninetier
In the mo - o - orning! . . . .

Karl, please consider pursuing a fulltime career as a lyricist  ........

[longears]

...or not.   

Depending on what the day seems to have in store, I might awaken to the 3rd movement of Sibelius's 5th...or to the opening bars of Rachmaninoff's Isle of Death.

[Kullervo]

I sometimes wake up with a theme in my head, and spend half the day trying to remember what it was.

[dtwilbanks]

There's always some piece of music running 'round my brain. However I do not keep a track list. 

[Cato]

I sometimes wake up with a theme in my head, and spend half the day trying to remember what it was.

I have the opposite problem: I can still give you radio and TV jingles from the post-WW II era!   


And yes, commercial jingles have sometimes jangled me awake: a good dose of our hero Schoenberg fixes the situation!


Longears: that would seem especially ominous, having The Rach's Isle of the Dead floating in your mind in 5/8 time in the morning!   

Does anything bad happen on those days?   

[longears]

Good, bad...it's all in the way we look at it! 

I think it has to do with what I have to look forward to at work that day.  Lately it hasn't been all sunshine and lollipops.

[karlhenning]

I'm not keen on lollipops, myself.

[BachQ]

I'm not keen on lollipops, myself.

Oh, but the combination of lollipops & sunshine ........

[Cato]

Oh, but the combination of lollipops & sunshine ........

Thanks a lot!

Now Lesley Gore is singing in my head!!!    0:)

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/lesley-gore/sunshine-lollipops-and-rainbows.html

[longears]

Thanks a lot!  Now Lesley Gore is singing in my head!!!    0:)

Cool!  I had no idea you were geezer enough to get the reference.

Karl, on the other hand....   

[karlhenning]

I can correct you, there. I have never at any time geezed.

[longears]

Gesundheit.

[Renfield]

Well, a rather interesting example was when I awoke one day with the opening of Mahler's 8th Symphony in full (internal) blast! And it even went on for a minute or two, before I actually got up.

I've also memorably woken up to the second movement of Beethoven's 7th, various movements of Brahms' symphonies (including the third movement of the 4th, recently), the opening movement of Beethoven's 1st, the opening movement of Beethoven's 2nd...

Also the opening movement of Sibelius' 3rd Symphony! Obviously a lot of other Mahler, including the opening movement of the 3rd and the third movement of the 5th... And that's off the top of my head.

But really, I'm in the group of people who always have some sort of music playing in their inner Winamp (or iTunes, if you want). And the best thing is, you don't really know what you're getting next!

Oh, I've also woken up to the opening of Bruckner's 5th, and maybe his 4th, too.