Susan McClary - The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release.

- Susan McClary

source: "Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality". Book by Susan McClary, 1991.

topic: Symphony, Frustrated, Movement, Parameters, Musical Composition, History Of Music, Recapitulation