Talk:Symphony No. 38 (Mozart)

Okay, this is my stab at a music article for which I am woefully underqualified. Hack away... Psp 00:34, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Characteristic of the Symphony
The newly added section reads somewhat as though a section of an essay has been directly Babelfished into English with no attempt to make the result comprehensible, let alone idiomatic. If this is so then I suggest posting the original into talk, and having someone fluent in both languages make a more personal translation. I am tempted in the meanwhile to remove the section stat-and-presently since anyone happening on the page will simply blink and go away, which is contrary to the purpose of WP. And unfortunate since there do seem to be things said there. Schissel : bowl listen 23:00, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

User:UserTanaka, if you are watching the talk page, please (not that you have to, but I believe it would improve the article if you did which is what talk pages are for) move the Characteristic... section to the talk page, so that it can in fact be discussed, modified and translated/made far more idiomatic here. (Though it is not a question of a slight business of idiom.) To the extent that I can understand it it seems worthwhile, again. Schissel : bowl listen 01:24, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

The section, newly moved, is:

Completion of this work falls exactly in the time during the writing of "Le nozze di Figaro" and Don Giovanni. Even here can recognize the feature which is in common with this both large work, to everywhere. < Pitch of Figaro > (L Shyomfay) thing and 2 the D major key which is chosen in main pitch? Easy thought of subject of 3 makes "the marriage empty influence of Figaro recognize" and, tragic tension of the beginning playing section and dramatic ups and downs of inside feeling, may say that "Don Giovanni" is made to foresee. But such opera elements are absorbed with the maturity whose vessel easy technique is considerable, among the sound construction which are superior. It is as for being observed even among them, baroque Polyphony technique to permeate to all tune deeply, to show beautiful fusion with Mozart original song style. The Bach = Handel experience of Mozart's produced true unique bearing fruit with this symphony, that it probably will be possible to say. In addition to anti- rank method, syncopation and the semitone floor show the form to subject of all movements, the material which is rich in such tension and the shadow, in a manner of speaking outside, D major key has succeeded in the to inside converting direction pitch.

"the powerful backing of timpani and trumpets"?
I don't know whether this statment is subjective or not but anymway I don't agree with this. Addaick (talk) 07:56, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed this. I spelled out the scoring.  "full orchestra" was way too vague anyways. DavidRF (talk) 16:27, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Prague
"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Symphony No. 38 in D major (the "Prague"), K. 504, in late 1786." I don't understand the part in parentheses... Is this the Symphony that's also called the "Prague" Symphony? Someone who knows this clarify please. =) 131.151.26.135 (talk) 20:39, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. DOne.DavidRF (talk) 20:55, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Also, if someone has a sound clip, it might be appropriate to include here... Any copyright on the piece is almost certainly expired 131.151.26.135 (talk) 20:43, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The composition is in the public domain (note the free scores at the bottom of the page) but that recordings are a different story. Most of the ones people have on CD are copyrighted.  Doesn't mean public domain audio can't be obtained, but it takes some effort to find and clear them with the copyright-cops in the commons area.  I agree sound files would be nice, though.DavidRF (talk) 20:52, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Similar to Don Giovanni's Overture?
Seems to me more similar to the Overture from The Magic Flute... So where did this comparison come from? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.113.18.30 (talk) 16:01, 20 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, there are two motives in the Prague Symphony that recur in the overture to the Magic Flute: one features staccato repeated notes, the other a descending major scale. 192.80.96.39 (talk) 18:07, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

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