The study of Symphony No.3-6th movement
■ My encounter with Symphony No.3-6th movement
I wrote a review of Symphony No.3-6th movement, which is a masterpiece of Mahler.
It was my own interpretation, and I learned about this song from commentary books such as "History of Western Music-Twilight of" Classical "".
■ Impressions of Symphony No.3-6th movement
The impression at the beginning of this melody sounded idyllic.
It is a melody that anyone can hum.
Musicians should generally seek composition that no one has ever heard, and no one can think of to attract and memorize people's attention.
However, this melody has an atmosphere that even ordinary people can compose with a humming song.
This is because Mahler dared to exclude originality and difficult techniques from the melody.
I thought that it might be because there was a desire to create a world view with Mahler.
■ Background of the times
When Gustav Mahler was active from 1860 to 1911, when Mahler lived, in modern Europe, ancient religions such as Roman Catholicism became customary, and it seems that they did not have the power to impress people with sacredness and mystery.
God had done his work.
God is dead.
Religion would have become a profane for people to facilitate their career advancement and self-revealing, some to power and some to satisfy scholarship.
Mahler himself who has his parents as Jews is said to have converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism for his career.
A powerful God whose defeat by an enemy country has been wiped out by an army of angels,
the gracious God who saved the people by dropping the rain of grace, the mana of grace when they were hungry and stumbling on a dry mass of soil,
The merciful God who healed and freed the blind and the lame, the mourning, and the guilty.
If all of them were fairy tales only in books ...
This outrageous world where miracles are gone, prayers are empty, and the image of God cannot be seen.
Even if you see or hear something that seems to be a miracle somewhere, in the end it is just a human device or it will be elucidated by science.
The power of religion, which once gave people the hope and conviction to overcome even death, has disappeared.
Matthew 4:4 said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
There is a passage which Jesus quoted the Bible.
Human beings always seek something that satisfies their spirit, even if his subject changes from religion or God to something else.
Perhaps the powerful and the conquered, the rich and the poor, the wise and the illiterate, and Mahler himself were hungry for mysterious emotions beyond the reach of others.
It is easy to be neglected to live or to survive,
No self-protection and sophistry, no takeovers and bribes, no counterevidence and excuses, etc.
rather, he would have wanted to believe in the supreme being who punishes the weak heart that escapes to such an evil way and penetrates the soul with heartache.
From the last part of Symphony No.3-6th movement, a little more than 19:30 in the video,
the first melody which was described as idyllic at the beginning, reappears with a solemn arrangement.
If Mahler had a Jewish view of religion, this music sounds like it represents the world of the Old Testament.
■ Feel the reproducibility of the times when God lived
It is like a reenactment of the story of an era when God was still alive, and people prayed on earth and the heavens opened and answered prayers on a scale beyond imagination.
Humans are powerless, ignorant, and small beings.
But if they humbly pray, even if it is a dull word, God will answer and solve everything.
Of course, is it a dream, a fantasy, or a fairy tale?
But at least in music, we can create and immerse ourselves in such a world.
We can sympathize with others.
I thought Mahler created with that in mind.
References: History of Western Music-Twilight of "Classic" Akeo Okada (Author)
"4'33" by John Cage may have been heard by anyone who is interested in classical music. 4'33" - John Cage | Who can call silence is music. Or no one has heard of it. Because it is Tacet itself.
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