[78-L] Lenny

[Don Cox]

On 09/07/2013, David Lennick wrote:

> Hey, the first line of the Duke Ellington classic FLAMINGO (composed
> by Ted Grouya) can be heard, note for note, in the first movement of
> Mahler's Third Symphony.
> 
> Doesn't the first line of "Rudolph" also turn up in Mahler, in a minor
> key? For that matter, did Mahler know he was writing variations on
> "Frere Jacques" in his first symphony?
> 
I think Mahler's use of a well-known tune here is clearly deliberate.
After all, he was writing music suggested by an ironic cartoon:

http://hotmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Schwind_Begraebnis.jpg

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Don Cox
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