Understood at Last?: A Memetic Analysis of Beethoven’s ‘Bloody Fist’

As a singular moment in the western canon, the opening of the recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has prompted a variety of structural and expressive readings. This paper explores its intertextual connections with Mozart’s Don Giovanni from a memetic perspective, outlining certain extra musical interpretations, including some related to Susan McClary’s controversial reading of the passage, one might infer from the strong musical connections

Map of the Territory of New Mexico

Map of the Territory of New Mexico that includes minimal topographical data, rivers, information about local Indians, and a scale of miles

Map of the Territory of New Mexico.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century New Mexico roads, trails, settlements, landmarks, and areas of Native American habitation. Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given

[Map of northern Virginia and part of Maryland].

Relief shown by shading.Shows area south of Frederick, Maryland to Colchester, Virginia and west of Baltimore, Maryland to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, including fortifications at Munson Hill.Note on verso obscured by mounting: From Capt. James W. Abert, U.S. Army Topog. Engrs.LC copy annotated in ink: Capt. James W. Abert, Capt. U.S. Army Topog. Engrs. DLCTitle, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989.Sun print. DLCLC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 451.7LC copy: Annotated in ink, hand colored in watercolors, and mounted on cloth. DLCCall no. cited in LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.): G3882.N6 186- .A3 Vault. $5 DL

New Mexico, United States 1846

[Comp.] 1845;Transfer line print. Relief shown by hachures. From: Message of the President, communicating a report of an expedition led by Lieutenant Abert, on the upper on the upper Arkansas. 1846. (29th Congress, 1st sess., v. 8, Sen. Doc. 438, Serial 447). Wheat, C.I. Mapping Transmississippi West, v. 2, no. 489 (reprod. opp. p.193-- incorrectly labelled no. 491).Grayscale;Scale [ca. 1:3,400,000

Map of the Territory of New Mexico made by order of Brig. Gen. S.W. Kearny, under instructions from Lieut. W.H. Emory

Scale of original map: ca. 1:820,000. Original publisher: U.S. War Department; printed by Wendell and Van Benthuysen,Washington, D.C., 184

Map of the Territory of New Mexico

Scale of Original Map: ca. 1:820,000. Original publisher: U.S. War Departmen

Map showing the route pursued by the exploring expedition to New Mexico and the Southern Rocky Mountains.

Map shows exploratory routes taken across Kansas, northern New Mexico, and southern Colorado; settlements, locations and dates for camps, and areas of Native American habitation; Santa Fé Trail. Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:2,000,269]