Klarinet Archive - Posting 000156.txt from 2005/02

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Language issues: Andante idiot motor bike
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:07:26 -0500

Wonderful example of machine (mis)translation!

At 10:52 PM 2/6/2005, you wrote:
>My mother asked me to send her a list of Beethovens works including the Opus
>#, the year written and what key the music is in. I found a web site from
>University of Quebec through Google and clicked on "Translate this Page" and
>printed it out last night. This morning I looked through it before mailing
>it off. As I scanned the page looking for works with clarinet I saw a Trio
>(op. 11) for Pf, Cl, Vcl. that I don't believe I've ever heard.

MIDI and MUS files available at

http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm

>I noted the
>tempo marking of the first movement was "Allegro idiot brilliance" and
>thought "that Beethoven, what a kidder". As I went back to the begining I
>saw that in fact there seemed to be idiots in almost all of Beethovens
>early works. In 1797 Beethoven wrote his first violin sonata and according
>to this web site, the instructions to the players in the second movement
>are: "Andante idiot motor bike (the major one)".
>At page 10 of 36 the program seems to catch a clue and leaves Allegro con
>brilliance and Andante con moto untranslated.
>
>Jesse Rogers
>Cols. OH
>
>
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