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From: karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn)
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Subject: Re: tone poems
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 18:29:36 EDT
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>      Whenever I hear the beginning of the last movement from
>   Mozart's 40th symphony, I see a cartoon-type cat-and-mouse
>   chase.  The violins are the little mouse and the rest of the
>   orchestra is the big, clumsy cat.

That's an interesting interpretation that hadn't occurred to me before, but
I guess I can "see" it now that you mention it.

Actually, the piece that had always conjured up a "cartoon cat-and-mouse"
image to me is near the beginning of the last movement to Beethoven's
Eroica.  (It starts in bar 12, right after the introduction Antony Hopkins
says Beethoven wrote to "impress the natives".) Even commentators like
Hopkins have some pretty amusing things to say about this section.

Phil