Re: [F_minor] Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

[Brad Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

Gould's recording of this is one of the few that seem *almost fast 
enough* to me in the first movement.  The thing is, after all, marked in 
cut-C meter.  Not the dawdling C (or 4/4) that it gets dragged out to, 
by so many others.  Furthermore, the harmonic rhythm of the piece is so 
slow that it too (along with the cut-C meter) begs for a faster and more 
flowing tempo.

As for "moonlight", it wasn't Beethoven's own title for it anyway.  Why 
should the piece have anything to do with moonlight?


Brad Lehman
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