"The Lumberjack Song"
Posted on 03/01/2006 7:54:55 PM PST by Reaganesque
I was sitting here tonight listening to Mozart's Requiem and I got to thinking: what do I consider to be the best work of music ever? For my part, Mozart's work really does the trick for me when I need to be re-energized. Therefore, I believe that his Requiem is the greatest work of all time. There just isn't another work that is as powerful and passionate. When the chorus sings the final "Amen" at the end of "Lacrimosa" I get the feeling that he knew it was the last thing he would ever write. It gives me chills at times.
Other favorites are:
Handel's Messiah
The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky
Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man"
"The Lumberjack Song"
Ramones, Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra.
Give credit where credit is due...
Glen Gould the Goldberg Variations.
Zachariah the “first electric western"
Starring Don Johnson, John Rubinstein, Barry Melton, Elvin Jones, Country Joe and the Fish, Pat Quinn, Dick Van Patten / Produced by George Englund and Lawrence Kubik / Music by Jimmy Haskell / Cinematography by Jorge Stahl
spelling may suck, but johan pachobell's canon in D major trips my trigger.
"And honey I miss you,
And I'm being good..."
I have sung the Mozart Requiem many times and do not find it's writing to be on a par with other Mozart works such as his operas. Must be because Mozart did not personally write a good part of the Requiem. For info about this see http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Mozartreq/main.html
I love Copeland. Thrilling music.
Pachelbel's Canon in D Major........
Tie.
"Quadrophenia" by The Who
"Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd
Ping.
"For my part, Mozart's work really does the trick for me when I need to be re-energized. Therefore, I believe that his Requiem is the greatest work of all time."
I hate to tell you this because I'm not really an expert on it, but I have read about the Requiem. It is a great work, but it is very possible that Mozart didn't write all of it.
There are some very un-Mozartians portions of the work.
See reference here: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Mozartreq/main.html
Requeim Mass K.626 by Mozart
movements composers who contributed
Requiem Requeim composed by Mozart
Kyrie Kyrie composed by Mozart ecxept the Colla-parte accompaniment, which was written by Franz Jacob Freystadler
Sequence Dies irae Mozart finished the four part vocal score, the instrumental bass, and the motivic portions of the instrumentation Joseph Eybler wrote the instrumentation; later Sussmayer copies Eybler's instrumentation with some minor revisions
Tub mirum sam as above same as above
Rex tremendae same as above same as above
Recordare same as above same as above
Confutatis same as above same as above
Lacrimosa Mozart finished only through the eighth measure Joseph Eybler write the instrumentation for mm. 9-10; Sussmayer wrote the instrumentation for mm.1-8 and composed mm. 9-30
Offertory Domine Jesu Mozart finished the four-part vocal score, the instrumental bass, and the motivic portions of the instrumentation Abbe Stadler might have worked on the instrumentation; Sussmayer wrote the instrumentation or used Stadler's with some revisions
Domine Hostias same as above same as above
Sanctus Sanctus Sussmayer's composition
Benedictus Benedictus Sussmayer's composition
Agnus Dei Agnus Dei Sussmayer's composition, but here he may have used some of Mozart's drafts**
Communion Lux aeterna Requiem composition measures 23-52 by Mozart are reused; adjusted slightly for the different text
Cum sanctis tuis Kyrie composition mm. 1-52 by Mozart is reused; adjusted slightly for the different text
**There has been many criticisms of Sussmayer's contributions. The main criticism is focused on Sanctus and Benedictus. However, with Agnus Dei, Wolff believes that it "juxtaposes a highly balanced and, in terms of rhetorical intensity, extremely effective four-part vocal setting and a complementary instrumental motif, exactly according to the manner of, for instance, the 'Domine Jesu'." Many speculate that Constanze gave Sussmayer drafts that Mozart had been working on. Some of these may have contained instructions or preliminary vocal ideas for not only Agnus Dei but also Sanctus and Benedictus. (these drafts were mentioned by Constanze in a letter to Stadler in 1827.)
My favorite if still Handel's Messiah.
AXIS- BOLD AS LOVE
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that aint fair.
patsy cline makes me cry.
I'll have to ditto that.
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