9th in the 9th
09/09/09 09:09 Filed in: Music
The last page of the score of Gustav Mahler’s 9th Symphony:

I noticed that in this final plagal or ‘Amen’ cadence, the high Ab is the 9th of the chord. I’ve recently bought the Bruno Walter 1961 recording which I had on vinyl as a boy.
Hear Leonard Bernstein take us through these final bars:

I noticed that in this final plagal or ‘Amen’ cadence, the high Ab is the 9th of the chord. I’ve recently bought the Bruno Walter 1961 recording which I had on vinyl as a boy.
Hear Leonard Bernstein take us through these final bars:
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