black butler season 2 episode 13 english dub

I first heard 'Black Angels' when I was 14 at a summer music camp.

The faculty worked at night after we were in our bunks and through the forest we heard horrifying sounds it remains the most terrifying piece of music I know. Crumb pushes the musicians to their physical but also spiritual limits. Sometimes art needs to explore regions that prefer to remain beyond the light of day.įrom here it gets technical you don’t have to read on to appreciate the music. The numerous quasi-programmatic allusions in the work are symbolic although the essential polarity – God versus Devil – implies more than a purely metaphysical reality. The symbolic presence of Good and Evil is a thread that runs through every measure, sometimes represented overtly in entire movements. Crumb represents the depths of Hell in the fourth movement, “Devil-Music,” by having the second violin and viola play the Latin Dies Irae (“Day of Wrath”) with a crunching sound which activates harmonic partials so that the pitch sounds below the note they are playing (I was not aware this was physically possible). The sixth movement, Pavana Lachrymae (a pavana is a slow 16th century dance, lachrymae means “tears” in Latin) contains an extensive quote from Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” (Der Tod und das Mädchen) rendered in a Medieval style reminiscent of early church music. This contrasts with the abundant use of the “Devil’s Trill” throughout the piece, a reference to Paganini, suspected by many of his compatriots to have made a pact with the devil in order to play at a level of virtuosity the world had never witnessed.

The numbers 3, 7, and 13 take on a special significance in the proxy war for Good vs. Black Angels is arranged in an arch-like design of 3 large “Threnody” sections (a “threnody” is a lament). The three stages of this voyage are Departure (fall from grace), Absence (spiritual annihilation), and Return (redemption). These 3 sections are divided into 13 movements (“Thirteen Images from the Dark Land”) in symmetrical pairs, the seventh movement standing as the lynchpin in the center. “Devil-music (no.4) and God-music (no.10) are symmetrically placed and conceptual opposites.

The two Medieval-sounding movements, “Pavana Lachrymae” (no. #Black butler season 2 episode 1 english dub dailymotion full#Ħ) and “Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscura” (no.

Black butler season 2 episode 13 english dub