'scherzo' in Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction | Bookmarker

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(noun) a sprightly humorous instrumental musical composition or movement commonly in quick triple time

Keller was citing Mahler’s Third Symphony, which contrasts its scherzo with the scherzo’s historical forerunner, the courtly minuet.

—p.268 Conducting Mortality: On Henry-Louis de La Grange’s Mahler (260) by Joshua Cohen

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