[TASMANIANRED]

One of my sisters gave me a boat load of iris corms..I didn’t get them in the ground.

I really need to see if any of them can be salvaged.

Sorry about the ruffian dog.

[Publius]

The Beethoven piece at the beginning in a teenage piece, but here is the last movement of his last sonata, which is in theme-and-variations format. He was totally deaf by this time. Beethoven uses diminution technique, which means that each variation has faster note values.

The theme has one note per pulse, and the first variation has 3 notes per pulse. Each variation has more notes per pulse. The shock comes at 6:01 where the variation with 5 syncopated notes per pulse is nothing less than jazz! The joy just leaps off the page! The left hand at 7:21 is pure boogie-woogie.

At 8:53 the 6-notes-to-the-pulse variation is almost like an out of body experience. You can barely find the harmonies that underlie the theme. It reminds me of Michael Oldfield.

Beethoven ends the piece, not with a long held note, but a rest. The silence is part of the piece.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111, Finale

[luvie]

I love irises. Gardener Man has dug up the bulbs and will
try to salvage these also, and replant in better dirt. They
are quite old and might not ever bloom again. His aunt and
my aunt gave them to me years ago. THEY were iris masters!