今天overplayed Beethoven系列分享Symphony No.5～不过说实话我觉得这首可能只有第一乐章被overplay了，后面的几个乐章在第一乐章之后都显得不是很突出。

第一乐章估计大家都很熟悉了，motif是可能是古典音乐界最著名的四个音：灯-灯-灯-登--。第二乐章是theme and variation form，不过和一般的不太一样，这里有两个主题，然后两个主题的variation交替出现，叫做double variation。但是这里的form也不是很严格，variation之间的界限没有非常明显。第三乐章Scherzo是ternery form，但也有两个主题，其中第二个主题又是灯-灯-灯-登--的motif。第四乐章是C major，一派胜利的景象，按照贝多芬自己的话：“Many assert that every minor piece must end in the minor. Nego! ...Joy follows sorrow, sunshine—rain.”

Symphony No.5在第二次世界大战中是重要的符号，主要由于它和V，也就是Victory之间的紧密联系。5的罗马数字是V，另外“V”在摩尔斯密码中的节奏正好是“灯-灯-灯-登--”。在贝多芬的时代，这首曲目也是很受欢迎的，最后贴一个作家、画家、作曲家E.T.A. Hoffmann（P.S.他是Nutcracker的作者）的乐评：
Radiant beams shoot through this region's deep night, and we become aware of gigantic shadows which, rocking back and forth, close in on us and destroy everything within us except the pain of endless longing—a longing in which every pleasure that rose up in jubilant tones sinks and succumbs, and only through this pain, which, while consuming but not destroying love, hope, and joy, tries to burst our breasts with full-voiced harmonies of all the passions, we live on and are captivated beholders of the spirits.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcAAA1O2sc

ref:
1. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Beethoven)#cite_note-24
2. 一个精确到分钟的分析：http://www1.lasalle.edu/~reese/Beethoven_Symph_5_notes.pdf