Just another WordPress.com weblog
Month: April, 2019
________
allegros are ubiquitous in the repertory,
you can find them everywhere, so I won’t
say much about them but that they’re
the next step up from andante, therefore
sprightly, energized, they’ll often start,
or end, sonatas, and their derivatives,
string quartets, concertos, symphonies,
et cetera, engaging listeners, at first,
then wishing them a cheery farewell,
after an often melancholy middle spell,
they’re here again in the two following
quintets, not unexpectedly, at the
beginning of each, and at their end
l – Allegro
ll – Larghetto
lll – Menuetto
lV – Allegretto con Variazioni
allegretto is slightly slower than
allegro
larghetto, meanwhile, is slightly faster
than largo, largo is slower even than
adagio, so that larghetto is somewhere
between the two, you’ll melt, believe
me, at this one
l – Allegro vivace
ll – Andante
lll – Scherzo (Presto)
lV – Theme and Variations (Andantino)
V – Allegro giusto
thirty years have elapsed between
them, from 1789 to 1819, listen for
the Classical Period becoming the
Romantic Era
a clue, you can sing along with the
Mozart, you can’t anymore with the
Romantics
a quintet, incidentally, was usually
comprised of a string quartet,
however varied these strings, note,
might have been, with whichever
instrument would make up a fifth,
according to which the quintet was
identified, thus a clarinet quintet was
a clarinet with a string quartet, a piano
quintet, a string quartet plus a piano
other variants will follow
enjoy
R ! chard
psst: the theme in the fourth movement
variations of “The Trout“ is from a
_______________
much like adagios, andantes, the
next step up with respect to pace
in musical compositions from
adagios, are rarely intended to be
alone, are part, most often, of a
larger creative intention, though
they must appear singly here and
there somewhere in the literature,
though where, I don’t yet know
and I’ve looked
remember, a Mozart, not surprisingly,
he was young and exuberant, adagios
would’ve been not immediately given
to so youthful an artist, consequently
less prevalent in their music, nor his,
Beethoven would be more ripe for
adagios, indeed crushing adagios,
eventually, in a more conflicted time,
but that’s another story
it’s the middle movement of his
less, itself, a monument to Western
a work that for my generation most
defined the essential Mozart
note that the anguish, at even this
accelerated tempo, from the
foundational adagio, is crushing
still and, still, utterly unforgettable
R ! chard
Richibi's Weblog 