What is Good Music? Suggestions to Persons Desiring to Cultivate a Taste in Musical Art

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A more ambitious style led to a form something like that of the first move- ment. Its outline is shown in the table opposite.
Haydn once said, " Oh, that some one would teach us how to write a new min- uet!" Beethoven gratified the desire of the father of the symphony when he introduced the scherzo. The word is Italian, and means joke or jest. The term was first used as a direction to players, when it appeared as scherzando.
But in the early part of the seventeenth century Italian canzonets wer
...e popu- lar in Germany and were called scherzi musicali. When it became the custom to name the different parts of a musical composition, the terms allegretto scher- zando and presto scherzando appeared.
We find several instances in the sonatas of Emanuel Bach, and even Johann Bach wrote a scherzo in one of his suites. The modern scherzo is a development of the minuet. Haydn took the stateliness out of the minuet by increasing its speed and introducing the element of humor ; but 57 Chap.
III.
Origin of the scherzo.


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