The Limitations of Nomenclature: Introductions by Beethoven and BrahmsIn the parlance of harmonic analysis, the Beethoven First Symphony and the Brahms
Ein Deutsches Requiem open with the same chord, known in the trade as V/IV, (or the dominant of the subdominant, for all you Poindexters out there) you’d think they would make a similar effect. But they don’t.