Ttttthhhiiiiiiiissssssss Wwwwwaaaasssssssss Aaaaaaawwwwweeeeeesssssooooommmmmeeee

Part of me wishes that I had written a piece of music in response to the beet stretch, or that I did the vlog option and stretched it out. I LOVED the beet stretch. It was so awesome. I have never been so calm while listening to music. I think this is going to replace Glenn Gould for my calming music while I work.

Naturally, I was so entranced with it that I had to share it with everyone I met for the next few days—ok, so I shared with the people sitting in my office with me at work, but hyperbolic language is sometimes necessary to drive the point home. They also really appreciated it, but they couldn’t believe that it was Beethoven.

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is perhaps one of his most well known today (if for no other reason than because Ode to Joy was forever immortalized by Blockbuster commercials in the 90s). It was the first song that my brother and I learned how to play on the guitar (although I’m a little rusty now) so, I would say that I am somewhat familiar; however, if I hadn’t done some internet research, I don’t know that I would have known that this was Beethoven. I knew that it was a classical piece, but it could have easily been Bach, Handel, or Mozart. How would I know the difference from listening to it slowed down at the rate that I heard it—for all I know this is an elaborate rouse that Andre is playing on us with Leif Inge in an effort to make us plunder other pieces of music to fit their radical recyclable agenda.

This of course poses the question that was discusses so poignantly in last week’s readings. Who owns what?

Does Leif Inge own 9 Beet Stretch, or does Beethoven? Ludwig van Beethoven composed the 9th Symphony; he was the revolutionary mind that decided to make the work a choral symphony (credited as the first of its kind) even though singers regularly comment that it is often performed as an instrumental because it is so incredibly hard to sing.

Beethoven had the idea; he composed; he conducted it when it was first played.

Does he have the ownership of 9 Beet Stretch?

Beethoven, technically, isn’t completely responsible for Symphony No. 9. “Ode to Joy” was a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803. The words to that poem are the lyrics to Symphony No. 9. Does that mean that Schiller is the real author of Beethoven’s 9th?

I contend that only if Schiller is the owner of Symphony No. 9, than 9 Beet Stretch is also his. If that isn’t the case (and I certainly don’t think that it is) than 9 Beet Stretch is essentially an original work.