One can easily get why Bohuslav Martinu's, Sergei Prokofiev's, Dmitri Shostakovich's, and Ralph Vaughan Williams' and Carl Nielsen's pieces are considered 'war symphonies'. These melodies are extremely powerful and energetic, and, actually, terrifying; even if some of them start as calm and innocent pieces of music, they suddenly get violent... suddenly something unexpected and damaging occurs and sounds just start to interrupt each other creating an alarming chaos of music (just as in war). In my opinion, all of these 'war symphonies' express not only the obvious violence and inhumanity of war but the despair, the madness and the intensity of those war times. I've always thought that music is the most abstract form of art, but I can say that these symphonies indeed give a war feeling.
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