Carefully listen to the Fourth Movement (IV) of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor “Choral” Links to an external site.and the Sixth Movement (VI) of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde Links to an external site.. In your opinion, which of these pieces demonstrates the best relationship between music and text? In other words, in which of these pieces do you believe the music better enhances the text and/or the text better enhances the music? Why?
