- 这三个礼拜上课学的都是19世纪浪漫主义的音乐。交响音乐方面，昨天讲了 Liszt vs. Brahms，还仔细听了勃拉姆斯第四交响乐第四乐章（主题与变奏，却又体现了奏鸣曲格式）。才发现勃拉姆斯太棒了，简直是理性战胜一切嘛！小时候我对勃拉姆斯没有兴趣，母亲总说勃拉姆斯要到老的时候才能学会欣赏，我以为是因为他看起来长了大胡子的原因。看来我已经开始老了？上这门课之前，我已经很久没有听19世纪浪漫主义的音乐了，这次认真学习，重新认识了贝多芬（英雄！），舒伯特（天才！），勃拉姆斯（激情的学者！）。唉，恐怕不久也要改名叫 BBB 了。
不过我倒是一直非常喜欢勃拉姆斯的 German Requiem 了。
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柴可夫斯基却听不懂勃拉姆斯。哈哈！这里是从我 Brahms Symphony No.4 的 CD 上抄的：
During his many years as a music critic, Peter Tchaikovsky once laid his finger on the open wound of incomprehension with which many music lovers throughout Europe viewed the work of Johannes Brahms: "For the Russian heart there is something dry, cold, nebulous and repelling about the music of this German master. For us Russians, Brahms lacks every sense of melodic fantasy. The musical thought in Brahms is never completely pronounced. Barely has a melodic phrase been as much as hinted at, it is so overgrown with all kinds of harmonic modulations as if the composer had set himself the task of being incomprehensible and deep whatever the cost.... His style is always so lofty..., but in everything the most important element of all is missing: beauty!".
第四交响乐第四乐章：He erected a yet stronger dam against an excess of romantic feeling with the finale, which is without parallel in his whole work for the rigour of its movement technique. It grows from a eight-bar theme that sounds as if sculptured (Brahms took it from the Bach cantata BWV 150 "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich") and returns with the following 30 variations to the baroque genre of the chaconne or passacaglia. The movement surpasses the ostinato movements of the 17th and 18th century through the grandiose formal conception which oversees the whole. In a constructed exposition of the sonata form, the first 11 variations calls to mind the energetic main theme, and the following 4 variations are reminiscent of the lyrical side thought. After the excited "development" (variations 16-22), variations 23-25 lead back to the beginning and thus mark the "recapitulation" of a movement, which in its uncompromising rigour of form stands before the listener like an erratic block and pushes him to the impotence of incomprehension.
不好意思开新线，就跟在这里说两句吧。这么快一年就过去了。
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