Brahms Symphony No. 4
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The Second Theme by Brahms
The final three nots are triplets, three notes in the space of one beat. This creates a sort of resistance to flow that brahms was famous for. It makes a theme that should sound easy and natural slightly more awkward and disjointed. Beethoven was famous for taking one small motive and then stringing it out for an entire movement. But brahms does it at least as much, if not in even more subtle ways, than beethoven did.
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