Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Henryk Górecki - 1st movement

Lento—Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile

(only the second part of the 1st movement)

Typically 27 minutes in duration, the first movement equals the combined length of the second and third movements,[9] and is based on a late-15th century lament of Mary from the Lysagora Songs collection of the Holy Cross Monastery in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. Comprising three thematic sections, the movement opens with a canon in ten parts using a 24-bar melody in the Aeolian mode on E. It begins with double basses, and each succeeding entry occurs one measure later (i.e., a new entry begins every 25 measures), starting a fifth above the last. After the canon reaches a full 10 parts, it works its way back to a single pitch. The soprano enters in the second section and builds to a climax on the final word, at which point the strings enter forcefully with the climax of the opening canon. The third section of the movement (Lento—Cantabile semplice) is a long dénouement that also winds down to a single pitch.

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[Ned Blackburn]

i actually laughed, that comment was so unbelievably pretentious

[meanmon]

Self indulgent?...Okay...Melodramat­ic?...Maybe...Drivel?...Shame On You and your Music Major friends...Try broadening your imagination...I'll leave you with the words that were written on a German Opera House...

Bach Gave Us God's Word

Mozart Gave Us God's Laughter

Beethoven Gave Us God's Fire

And God Gave Us Music So We May Pray Without Words.

...no matter what the music/song is...It is a work or ART!

Give a listen to Hansen's Symp. # 2, "The Romantic" Take Care

[Chris Harris]

Anyone who loved this would love Ennio Morricone's main theme for the movie Casualties of War.

[jloomis777]

Hipsters studying music. Ugh. They hate music that gained any following before their parents were even old enough to conceive children. Had your parents been hipsters, they would have taken the plan B pill before it was "mainstream."

[Tommy C]

'chuckle'? Listen to this piece after you've taken your finger out of your arse.

[Jax10n]

haha, people are actually going on about a comment from a year ago.

[rasibra]

You my friend are lost in a great sea where all ends appear similar.

[0kicy77ify]

Rugby it's alright give some of that 2 chainz

[EagleEyeGolfer]

This was the very first classcial CD I ever bought. There's something spiritual about this song.

[philmusica1 .]

'Music major friends'.. Teenagers whose opinions matter more than the notes of a master?

[TheTigersbay]

beautiful

[Dario Galano]

you sir, have no sense of what makes music beautiful. And it doesn't take a Major In Music to understand that anything can be music, and this is definitely more than just music, this is beautiful, and i might be wrong, but its probably more beautiful than anything you might compose in your life. so keep your comments to yourself you pretentious, bigoted moron