12-01-2011, 02:10 PM
(12-01-2011, 01:41 PM)Eric Wrote: Beethoven's 5th? That's a song of victory??
Quote: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