Word: troppo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their opening Vivace ma non troppo sounded suspiciously like an Andante, and even as the last two movements unfolded at more appropriate tempos, one had the sense that the two musicians were trying too hard not to make mistakes...
...scene is thus set for what could have been an absorbing examination of the explosively tenuous relationships between the "troppo" men and Sister Langtry. But McCullough continually breaks the old Expos rule: She insists upon "telling, not showing" the complexities underlying her characters...
...rolls of the snare-drum take over in the Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Mahler describes in a correspondence the hero of this last movement: "Oh him fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled." Once the seven sceptres at Armageddon come out of the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony, the scythes they raise deliver a cruel final stroke...
...like the largo third movement and allegro non troppo finale is to have a good memory for themes and variations. The melodies are for the most part atonal and especially complex when juxtaposed in syncopation, one instrument playing a melody on the beat, and another playing the same theme a beat or two behind...