Are ther any 'false ends' in Classical Music like there are in mainstream music
Are ther any 'false ends' in Classical Music like there are in mainstream music
Lots of rock / pop music often make you think the song has ended (sometimes even having a few seconds of silence) only to carry on for a few seconds / minute. Does any classical music do this?
Not exactly a false end as there's not really a big enough gap, but at the end of Orawa by Kilar, the madly-playing strings all come to a crescendo stop and, after a beat, all the musicians shout, "Hey!"
Took me completely by surprise when I first saw it performed (having never heard it before). Wonderful piece, absolutely bonkers.
Haydn did this often.
The end of Tchaikovsky 5 has a surprise coda.
I feel like Beethoven's Ode to Joy is like this.
Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss