Word: scherzo
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nocturne and Scherzo from the music to A Midsummer-night's Dream, op. 61......MENDELSSOHN...
...melody written to it many years ago by Silcher is much better adapted to its character, and will scarcely be superseded by this modern version. In the Scotch Symphony the orchestra was at its best. This tone-poem has all the wild picturesqueness of Highland scenery, and the quaint scherzo, especially, with its bagpipe melody, is very suggestive of its theme. As in the case of Brahms' first symphony, the several movements of this work were written at different periods of the composer's life, and yet the unity of thought and treatment is well preserved throughout. There are some...
...Professor Paine, on the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their successors, - their development of the Sonata and Symphony. It is not everywhere nor every day that one can listen to the analysis and criticism and afterwards to the interpretation of a minuet of Mozart or a scherzo of Beethoven by one who himself ranks high as a critic and a composer. Mr. Paine is willing that all those not regularly members of the elective, but wishing to hear him play the various movements analyzed, should be present during the hour. The lectures are given at half past...
...LARGHETTO and SCHERZO, in B flat...