[ExI] Objective standards?

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:35 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> >>…Ja, but that’s because the 5th is the only one of Beethoven’s works
> which has words.
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> >…Unless you're joking, I think you mean the 9th. ;) That has the Ode to
> Joy thingy….Dan
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> Well, ja.  The fifth sounds angry to me.  So here’s my breezy explanation
> about Beethoven, working hard at composing all day, weary, discouraged
> because he was trying to compose a thing of beauty but had composers block,
> nada nada nada.  His son and his girlfriend show up just as the Beetster is
> packing up to go home, son asks the old man if he and his sweetheart can
> play the piano, ja go ahead if you must.  Next day, the famous composer
> sits down to work, notices funny smell, then discovers under side of piano
> is sticky and gross.  He is understandably furious, bangs out the 5th
> right on the spot:
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> SON OF  A BIIIIIIIIITCH…
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> Son of a biiiiiiiiitch…
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> I aughta hit
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> You in the tit
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> You little shiiiiiit…
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> And so forth, over and over.  The next verses are even worse.  Well he
> composed the whole theme in a fit of anger.  After he realized the
> composer’s block was gone, that his horny teenage son had just handed him
> his next top 40 hit, his fury was spent and he cheered up considerably.
> The locals wouldn’t play it with the not-safe-for-church words (churches
> had really uptight standards in those days) so Beethoven just erased the
> lyrics and turned it into an instrumental.  We don’t even call it the Son
> of a Bitch song anymore, so few know of its origins.  Think on that next
> time you hear the song, and sing along if you wish.
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> Dan see what you can learn about history and music, just from hanging out
> with your old uncle Spike?
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You make learning fun! :)

Dan
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