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In the Thread: The best Third Movement from “Der Titan”
Post Subject: Revival?Posted by Paul S on: 8/16/2009
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I just listened to the "Titan" again. Once again the electricity was bad enough that the Sound was not good. None the less, I now understand this composition as a sort of German "Folk" revival with Bohemian/Czech twists. This time I am reminded immediately of Bohme (sorry, no umlaut...), Hamann and Herder, who did in fact re-surface periodically as mystical and/or quasi-mystical models of the gut-as-reason-enough school, along with certain "racial" overtones. Part of this ethos was valuing "Folk" ideals, which are so prevalent in the Titan. And heard this way, the Titan is pretty coherent, musically and thematically, and the 3rd movement actually makes perfect sense like this.
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