RE: [F_minor] Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

["Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com>]

Beautiful answer.   

Fred


 

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From: f_minor-bounces@email.rutgers.edu
[mailto:f_minor-bounces@email.rutgers.edu] On Behalf Of paul wiener
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:41 PM
To: Brad Lehman; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [F_minor] Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

I look at it this way:

Beethoven made "The Moonlight Sonata" possible, in all its iterations.



At 03:31 PM 6/20/2008, Brad Lehman wrote:
>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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