What song was Ra singing? (From session 86, question 6)

[Lavazza]

You may consider the emotive and connotative aspects of a melody. One could call out, in some stylized fashion, the terms for the notes of the melody. One could say, quarter note A, quarter note A, quarter note A, whole note F. This bears little resemblance to the beginning of the melody of one of your composer’s most influential melodies, that known to you as a symbol of victory.

Does that ring a bell for any of you musically inclined seekers?

[Ruth]

Da da da daaaaaaaaaaaa

[Lavazza]

Beethoven's 5th? That's a song of victory??

[βαθμιαίος]

Beethoven's 5th? That's a song of victory??

Talk about a great hook! Three quick G's and a long E-flat – the opening of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony just could be the most memorable musical phrase of all time.

During World War II its suggestion of Morse Code became the powerful symbol of “V For Victory.” GI's who didn't know Schumann from shinola knew this was Beethoven and relished the irony of a German's music galvanizing the Allied effort to defeat the horrific murder machine that country had become.

http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/fifth.html

[Lavazza]

Talk about a great hook! Three quick G's and a long E-flat – the opening of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony just could be the most memorable musical phrase of all time.

Haha! Brilliant! Too bad Ra didn't attempt to actually use the instrument as a musical instrument in this instance. If they had I would be posting this in the 'humorous moments' thread.