Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: tone poems (Mozart's 40th Symphony) Message-ID: <5674@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 12:14:36 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.5674 Posted: Tue Sep 10 12:14:36 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 22:08:01 EDT References: <730@charm.UUCP> <31800001@ISM780.UUCP> <256@cylixd.UUCP> <834@whuxlm.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 18 > A librarian once taught me the words to the first movement of > Mozart's 40th... > > "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Mozart...." > Then there's "This is the symphony, that Schubert never ever finished..." (2nd theme) Doesn't scan as well as the Mozart. But then there's Bach WTC:1 G minor fugue: "My are filthy - and I don't give a damn!" Maybe this should be a forbidden subject... Jeff Winslow "Why do you like the Socratic method?"