CONTINUING THE BENEFIT OF BEETHOVEN'S 9TH SYMPHONY

The sheer joy inherent within the last movement through the words, is in itself a joy to experience.

The last post described how through the chorus in the last movement two communities become one through the sacrifice, in the story of The Green Snake and The Beautiful Lily, the Green Snake forming herself into a resplendent bridge between two communities on opposite sides of a River.

The words in first passage of the chorus were written by Beethoven. Those in the second passage were written by Schiller.

Beethoven's use of vowel sounds especially with the futuristic quality often found particularly in the vowels O and U, create a strong imaginative environment.

For example:      Laufet Bruder, eure Bahn,  Brothers, run your joyous race,

                           fruedig wie ein Held zum Siegen,   Hero like to conquest flying.

In German the value of the futuristic nature of the au and u vowel sounds in Laufet Bruder for Brothers, and eure for joyous, and eu again in freudig, for Hero, and u in zum, for quest, is very powerful.

This theme of joyous quest for development of the characters and the community in The Green Snake and The Beautiful Lily is supported firmly and strongly by these o and u vowels sounds. I created a Post some while ago about the particular nature of these two vowel sounds.

In this story these sound help portray a feeling, a hope, an imagination that "anything is possible now." A wonderful example of practical Hope which in the The Green Snake and The Beautiful Lily fable is for the gradual recovery of the Youth to full consciousness enabling him to become a Prince and then a King.

Hope that the characters in two communities, through working collaboratively together, kollective, enabling two communities to become one single united community, through really effective conversation, dialogue, for the common good.

These were the word picture images Goethe gave as a gift to Schiller and all those who read, speak and became the characters in this story, this fairy tale, this fable - for our common good.