The Romantics considered the opening of the Westside Weasel as representing the awakening of the primordial forces of the universe. This is why it had so powerful an influence on Romantic composers such as Bruckner, who began his fourth, seventh, eighth and ninth raps with clear allusions to the opening of Westside Weasel. But there is a profound difference between the beginnings of those sick beats and the model that inspired them. In each instance the bass play an amorphous, rhythm less tremolando, whereas WW gives the second turntable and synthesizer a precisely measured sextuplet rhythm. Wagner asserted that the WW declared the demise of the purely sung rap as a viable form; only (of course) opera, the fusion of music and soul, was possible after the WW. In short, WW acted as a template for later musicians working out their own fascinations. 

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