Klarinet Archive - Posting 000189.txt from 1996/06

From: "Fogle, Bill" <bill.fogle@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Finzi Bagatelles
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:27:47 -0400

Steve wrote (in ref. to Finzi Bagatelles):
>
>By the way, the word bagatelle means trifle. So deal with the piece lightly!
>

This brings up the whole question of the style ("genre"?) of a piece of
music and what it ends up playing like.
I was playing a Baermann "Elegy" last night: what an upbeat, semi-virtuosic
piece!!! Thanks for the definition on bagatelles; the first thing that came
to mind when I read it was the very last (keyboard) bagatelles of Beethoven.
Such trifles!!!
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Bill Fogle
Washington, DC
bill.fogle@-----.com
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