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Posted on 05/22/2015 5:58:27 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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In honor of my recital Sunday? LOL!
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This was written in 1827 near the end of Frannie’s short 31 year life. Schubert was deepening his art, and it was a shame that it took several decades after his death for his music to be properly appreciated.
It’s in 4/4 and marked “allegro moderato.” The first part is in F minor; the second is in A-flat, and it’s heartbreakingly beautiful. The middle third goes to A-flat minor, and if you just close your eyes and listen, you’ll feel yourself floating. It floats between 7 and 4 flats with left-over-right hand crossovers. The first part in F minor returns. The second part returns, but in F Major, and it’s shortened. The middle third is in F minor and floats between 1 and 4 flats. Watch those crossovers! He wraps it up with the first part in F minor, used as a very short coda.
Thank you!!
Yeah!
I'm Still Sitting Under the Apple Tree--Doris Day (1947)
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Misty Mountain Hop
Led Zeppelin.
Nice curvy fingers. I should show this video to my students.
They all got the flat fingered blues.
Good evening, Mac...*HUGS*...did you sally forth today? Commute any better?
Beautiful sunny day today...it’s upper 60s at my house. Maybe a little rain tomorrow.
The fifth quartet of this series looks back to Mozart, patterning itself after Mozart’s quartet in the same key, K. 464. The first movement is marked “allegro” and features a skipping theme that could have been used as the theme for a TV series in the Fifties. The second subject appears in E Major after a transitional passage in G Major. The exposition repeats. The development starts with the transitional material mixed with the first subject, then adds a bit of the second subject. The recap follows the usual pattern.
Lou puts his dance movement in second position, like Mozart, as a minuet in A Major. The middle section is a rustic dance
Like the Mozart quartet, the third movement is the weightiest of the quartet, a theme-and-variations set marked “andante cantabile.” The theme is not much more than a run up and down the A Major scale.
Variation #1 goes to the cello, which starts a canon that all the other instruments join.
Variation #2 goes to the first violin which dances around the theme, punctuated by the other instruments playing accompanying chords.
Variation #3 goes to the viola, joined by the others, either in trilling accompaniment or the cello working in tandem.
Variation #4 goes to the entire quartet playing in harmony, giving the effect of a small church organ, a technique Schubert was to turn into a masterstroke.
Variation #5 is circus music, and it’s worthy of a belly laugh.
Variation #6 comes as a surprise, and it’s rather quiet.
The coda is sweet and serene.
The finale, marked “allegro”, runs like the wind. It’s a rondo, and it ends quietly and sweetly.
Tomorrow night it’s the sixth quartet in this series.
Good Night all...I am exhausted...and the weekend is only beginning.
Good evening, Kathy!
and she sings it so sweet,
Thanks, Publius, for Rachmaninov’s “The Star Spangled Banner”.
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It’s in 3/4 and marked “allegretto.” This one is easy enough that I can play it without too much trouble. It’s in two parts, and the first is a simple, heartfelt tune. The middle portion moves to D-flat, and you can feel yourself float if you close your eyes. He turns to C# minor in an enharmonic shift but writes it without a key signature because it will only get in the way. He finishes a da capo of the first part.
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