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After seeing the short film BURN-E on the WALL·E DVD, I was inspired to write out Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". The song plays during the short film's credits, and BURN-E himself hums the song when he first starts his welding job. I wrote the song in D Major, the same key it's played in in the film. I'm not sure if Beethoven wrote the lyrics, but I know them from a song our choir did three years ago (and we're doing it again this year).
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~firelord-zuko Dec 11, 2010  Hobbyist Writer
The lyrics of the "Ode to Joy" as sung in the last movement of Beethoven's 9th sinfony are a poem by Friedrich Schiller, a great german poet (good friend to Goethe, they say). Yet the lyrics above are not the original, but a free translation. And yes: the ode to joy (without the lyrics, as most of the EU-citziens may speak german, yet no language shall be preferred) is the anthem of the European Union.
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~Dogman15 Dec 11, 2010
Interesting trivia. I wrote down these lyrics based off of my memory of learning them in choir class when I was in high school. Our choir learned a "gospel"-style arrangement of this song, and these were the lyrics.
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~firelord-zuko Dec 11, 2010  Hobbyist Writer
I see. I think the original lyrics by Schiller are quite atheistic (or rather, humanistic) compared to this. You can look them up on wikipedia, I think.
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~firelord-zuko Dec 11, 2010  Hobbyist Writer
By the way: you HAVE to listen to it (symphony version) on youtube :D
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~jackalmoth Dec 2, 2010
Pretty nice! I believe Beethoven's 9th was Ludwig putting to music a German poem, "Ode an die Freude", whose lines are the original lyrics for the song. I'm not sure who did the English lyrics, but they are also nice! The Wikipedia article names "Ode to Joy" as the anthem of the European Union, which I discovered while investigating the song after watching "A Clockwork Orange" for the first time.
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~Dogman15 Dec 2, 2010
How interesting! Thanks for the trivia!
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*Black-Banryu Mar 10, 2009
The original score of Beethoven's 9th was one of epic proportions, it took him six years to complete. This would just be the main melody.
In my opinion, Ode to Joy is the most famous piece of music ever written.
Some people dont know what it is, but when they hear it, they recognize it. Most know it instantly
200 years after it was written.
That, is why we call it classical music.
Im faving this. Bravo, :clap:
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~Dogman15 Mar 11, 2009
Thank you! I was inspired to do my own transcription of it after seing Pixar's "BURN-E" short film.
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~Lordsiyei Feb 5, 2009
Thx for wrote it on D major =D, i always see the original one =/
Thx and i think i'm gonna see wall.E =D
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~Dogman15 Feb 5, 2009
Hi! You seem to be new. Did you find my transcription through the "newest deviations" tool? Thanks for the fav!

And yes, go see WALL·E. See it before you see BURN-E.
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