Listening to the slow movement of Bruckner's 2nd symphony in the car yesterday, I found the rhythms strangely unsettling and tried to work out why (it's less dangerous than talking on a mobile phone while driving, just).It turns out to be an extended passage of twos against threes against fives. And slow enough for it all to tell. A disturbing genius. Disturbed too, if Ken Russell's Bruckner film is to be trusted, which of course it isn't.
Image from the splendid Variations website at the University of Indiana, which has a large collection of online scores.
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Looks like it could never work! Actually the second violins are doing dotted 3's which is really like 6's so it's even worse - I wonder what it sounds like - must try and find it on the web somewhere.
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