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scherzo (en)

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

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scherzo


Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
by Joshua Cohen

Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
by Joshua Cohen

Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
by Joshua Cohen


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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