[78-L] Borrowed tunes

[Dave Burnham]

Let me try to make an idiot out of you. The Beethoven tune starts on the second note of the Brahms. That note is the Tonic (doh) of the Brahms and the mediant (mi) of the Beethoven. Proceeding from there in that key, the Beethoven provides a perfectly harmonized counter melody to the Brahms. 

db

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On 2013-07-10, at 10:21 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> That must make me a genius because I don't see it at all.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 7/10/2013 9:56 AM, Dave Burnham wrote:
>> 
>> The actual quote is, (translated and paraphrased), "any idiot can see that and every idiot has". That certainly put the brakes on me ever mentioning the comparison again;  but I still think it was pretty clever of me to notice it when I was 7.
>> 
>> db
>> 
>> On 2013-07-10, at 6:30 AM, Don Cox<doncox at enterprise.net>  wrote:
> 
>>> As to "the big tune of the fourth movement of Brahms' first" - somebody
>>> remarked that it sounded very like the big tune in Beethoven's Ninth, to
>>> which Brahms replied "Any fool can hear that".
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> --
>>> Don Cox
>>> doncox at enterprise.net
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