Talk:Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)
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In words of a critic, the composer had finally succeeded to free himself from "individualistic chaos and formalist experimentation". Which critic? Mark1 00:12, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of the "trivia"
I hope nobody is too upset for my removal of the silly bit of trivia that somebody inserted into this article. Pop musicians "sampling" from serious music is nothing unusual and deserves no special mention in an article dealing with serious music. After all, I don't see anyone citing Dr. Dre's and Xzibit's use of J.S. Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto in their song, Symphony in X major (I think that's what it was called) from the Man vs. Machine album in the Brandenburg concerto article.
Hey, it was me that added it, thought it might be interesting but if you feel that it isn't appropriate then ok.
And by the way, Morrissey isn't a pop musician :D
[edit] Something Silly
"Most believe the beginning to be boring, but Shostakovich knows how to write his music, so when the climatic sections are present they are most exciting and intensly musically entertaining."
is "boring" the right word here, it seems more appropriate to say "uneventful". and "but Shostakovich knows how to write his music" sounds bad, really bad. I would ask for removal or re-wording.
and intensely is spelled wrong.
I will get to work ASAP on a general rewrite of this article. El Chileno Chido 19:29, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, this article definitely needs rewriting... my four cents: - "first movement starts calm, tense, and slow" if you've heard it, it's certainly not calm - more distressed and menacing. in the performances i've heard, it doesn't sound particularly slow with its moderato marking either.
- "The strings then come in with a very fun and exciting melody" this is just an extreme example of the sloppy, informal and childish tone of this article. i would argue that the string melody is far from 'very fun' also.
- two different spellings of timpani are used throughout the article.
- "The last two measures is a percussion soli featuring the tympani and the bass drum, but most people remember the very end of the piece as the "cool bass drum solo"." OK, solo is spelled wrong but this really is the icing on the cake. I can't believe an article on such a famous piece ended up like this.
