Word: scherzetto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute than he will stand to in a month." Yet Rounds delivers his delicate and dazzling "Queen Mab" aria in a leaden manner, with lots of pauses. Vivace has become andante. I've said before--and I repeat--that the best guide here is the Queen Mab vocal scherzetto and orchestral scherzo from Berlioz's symphony. Furthermore, for a man who revels so in words, Mercutio should know that "lamentable" is accented on the first syllable. It is a clever idea, though, for his dying curse--"A plague a' both your houses!"--to be treated as an ironic toast, with...
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