Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 'Choral', Op. 125

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1. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 'Choral', Op. 125

(Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1959) Maria, a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria, becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sing ('My Favorite Things,' 'Do-Re-Mi'), and she and the Captain fall in love and get married. After Maria and the von Trapps give a concert for the Nazis ('Edelweiss'), they escape Austria ('Climb Ev'ry Mountain'). It was adapted into an Academy Award-winning 1965 film starring Julie Andrews.
At the most basic level, intervals — the distance between two pitches — are described with ordinal numbers (second, third, etc.), with the exceptions of unisons (two of the exact same note, which would logically have been called a 'first') and octaves (which would have been called an 'eighth'). The easiest way to find the basic interval between two pitches is to start on the bottom pitch, label that line or space '1,' and then count lines and spaces upwards until the next pitch is reached; for example, the interval between C and F is a fourth: C is counted as '1,' the lines/spaces for D and E are counted as '2' and '3,' and the line/space for F is reached on '4.' Unisons, fourths, fifths, and octaves may be classified as perfect, augmented, or diminished; seconds, thirds, sixths, and sevenths may be classified as major, minor, augmented, or diminished.
(1822 - 1824) Beethoven's Ninth Symphony marks the first significant use of voices as part of a symphony, though they are only used in the final movement. The opening motif from the first movement reappears in altered form in a second movement scherzo, which itself is followed by a slow third movement that alternates between quadruple and triple time. The massive final movement, whose internal form closely resembles that of the entire symphony, utilizes both Friedrich Schiller's 'Ode to Joy' and original texts by Beethoven himself. A typical performance takes approximately 75 minutes; the fourth movement alone takes 25.
This opera is, along with The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, one of Mozart's collaborations with Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. The soldiers Guglielmo and Ferrando, who love the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, respectively, brag about the fidelity of their fiancées; in a coffee shop, Don Alfonso makes a bet that he can make the sisters fall in love with other men in one day. Don Alfonso disguises the two men as Albanians after bribing the sisters' maid Despina; at first they resist (see Fiordiligi's aria 'Come Scoglio'), but after Dorabella and Guglielmo trade a medallion and a heart-shaped locket, Fiordiligi is seduced by Ferrando. In the end, the sisters 'almost' marry the wrong husbands, and only realize they've been tricked when the two men return to the stage half in disguise, half out.

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