Bracket 2 Winner: Bruckner 4

[Header ID: screenshot of sheet music showing the low horn solo from Shostakovich 5. /end ID]

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Bracket 2 FINAL MATCH:

🥊 Bruckner 4 vs Mahler 9 🥊

Poll posted Thursday March 20!

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Is Bruckner 8 CREEPY or WET?

Creepy

Wet

Voting ended onDec 23, 2025

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My wise take on that shirt is bob dylan needs to be closer to no sex and the Coltranes need to be the pinnacle of sex 😌

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What is the opposite of dracula music?

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I was going to say "hippie music", but I found the complete image.

[orchidrose]

Hm....

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Romantic Composers and their resemblance to popular Chinese dishes

For Chinese speakers: original Chinese ver. under the cut

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Mystery Submission 1

Submitted by @mathematical-cheese

Which symphony is this?

Tchaikovsky 5

Mahler 3

Elgar 1

Sibelius 5

Voting ended onMay 2, 2025

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This is Sibelius 5!

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Mystery Submission 2

Submitted by @almareda

Which symphony is this?

Brahms 4

Dvořák 7

Bruckner 9

Mendelssohn 5

Voting ended onMay 18, 2025

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Favorite musical interval

minor second

Major second

minor third

Major third

Perfect fourth

tritone

Perfect fifth

minor sixth

Major sixth

minor seventh

Major seventh

Octave

Voting ended onMay 8, 2025

for audio examples go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)

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Mystery Submission 1

Submitted by @mathematical-cheese

Which symphony is this?

Tchaikovsky 5

Mahler 3

Elgar 1

Sibelius 5

Voting ended onMay 2, 2025

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Okay for an extremely limited amount of time I'll take submissions for mystery symphony clips. If you're interested, here's what you need to send me:

YouTube SCORE video of the piece (to make my life easier)

Specific timestamp range you want the mystery clip to be (max about 30 sec)

What instrument you want to focus in on, if applicable

Other symphonies that you think would be reasonable false options (to make my life easier)

Notes:

It's gotta be a symphony. We're symphonybracket people.

If a symphony doesn't have a youtube score video, we can still talk later, I just want to start with easy ones.

If you think the score of a piece would give it away (e.g. mahler symphonies and the long ass german notes) then we can omit score.

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Okay for an extremely limited amount of time I'll take submissions for mystery symphony clips. If you're interested, here's what you need to send me:

YouTube SCORE video of the piece (to make my life easier)

Specific timestamp range you want the mystery clip to be (max about 30 sec)

What instrument you want to focus in on, if applicable

Other symphonies that you think would be reasonable false options (to make my life easier)

Notes:

It's gotta be a symphony. We're symphonybracket people.

If a symphony doesn't have a youtube score video, we can still talk later, I just want to start with easy ones.

If you think the score of a piece would give it away (e.g. mahler symphonies and the long ass german notes) then we can omit score.

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Okay while we are posting our favorite horn moments, this is one of my very top favorites from the beginning of the second part of Mahler 8. Mahler 8 in general is such a great example of how when you want warm gentleness, you call the horns in, when you want pure power, you call the horns in, when you want something so sexy people fall flat on their face you call the horns in!!!!!

[Video Description: a clip of Mahler 8 showing all 8 horn parts in a powerful moment in the beginning of the second part /end ID]

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Hi Cor ^_^ I really love this horn part in the finale of Mahler 3! It sounds so marvelous, when I listen to this part I imagine Mahler standing in front of me, grabbing my shoulders and shaking them, and telling me earnestly: "Love will prevail! Love will prevail!"

I LOVE this part too!!! I love it when the horn gets the moving part when most everyone else is held!! i found out when going searching for this part in the score that it's also doubled in viola/cello!! horn pairs so nicely with lower string sounds :)

I was actually able to see this piece in person just last weekend and it totally changed my perspective on the piece (as it always does!!!) and gave me a lot more appreciation for low horn.

this part seriously does feel so special ^^ ty for sharing!!

[Video description: a clip showing the Mahler 3 score near the end of the final movement where the horns have a powerful solo /end VD]

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FINAL: Which symphony do you prefer?

Bruckner 4

Mahler 9

Voting ended onMar 27, 2025

Bruckner 4

Holy shit the horn solos?? And like?? Brass????? The scherzo is so fucking good??? Please vote it????

The opening of this symphony is my favorite of all time. I can't explain the degree to which my heart explodes in my chest when I hear the opening lines. I love how Bruckner plays with inversions of the main theme in the final movement. This symphony feels like a love letter to triplets to me.

Mahler 9

The 4th movement is so emotionally charged and just so beautiful :)))

This symphony is really weird, it’s really hard to read from an emotional standpoint (yeah, it’s intense, but intensely *what*?)… at first I didn’t like it but after listening a lot it’s slowly become my second favorite Mahler symphony (after 2). First movement somehow makes a whole lot of music from what is essentially just a 2-note theme, the inner movements are these devilish little dances, and the last movement is just a beautiful farewell to the world and like the main theme is just a simple kind of turn ornament like the kind you’d hear in baroque music but he does so much with it it’s like *chef’s kiss* mmmm it’s so good

The first movement is my favorite, I LOVE all of the layering. The "heartbeat" rhythm is just haunting. The finale takes some getting used to, like slowly wading into hot water, but once you're there it's wonderful. It just takes a patient heart to crack her open.

It is the a beautiful tension between pain and hopefulness that suggests despite all the sadness Mahler experienced in his life, especially at this point, he still had some hope deep down

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In a very tight race, our bracket 2 winner is 🏆🍾🎉 Bruckner 4! 🎉🍾🏆