"{\clef treble \key c \minor \time 2/4 {r8 g'8[ g'8 g'8] | ees'2\fermata | r8 f'8[ f'8 f'8] | d'2~ | d'2\fermata | } }"

"DA-DA-DA DAAAAAA! This is not London. It is our orchestra rehearsing the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony…"

"There is an “oracle” at the beginning of the Fifth Symphony–in those four notes lies one of Beethoven’s greatest mess…"

"...orgy of vulgar noises."

"So in Beethoven’s mind there was presumably some dramatic scenario behind the Fifth Symphony, but he decided that, li…"

"So, there's this man, he has a time machine. Up and down history he goes — zip, zip, zip, zip, zip — getting into scr…"

"This symphony is also in F, like the Pastoral, though it is designed on a more modest scale than the preceding sympho…"

"In writing this symphony, Beethoven had been thinking of Buonaparte, but Buonaparte while he was First Consul. At tha…"

"The first rehearsal of the symphony was terrible, but the hornist did, in fact, come in on cue. I was standing next t…"

"Of all the works in the mainstream repertory of Western music, the Ninth Symphony seems the most like a construction …"