"Scherzo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... person's] impression of the spirit of transcendentalism that is associated in the minds of many with Concord, Mass., of over a half century ago. This is undertaken in impressionistic pictures of Emerson and Thoreau, a sketch of the Alcotts, and a Scherzo supposed to reflect a lighter quality which is often found in the fantastic side of Hawthorne. The first and last movements do not aim to give any programs of the life or of any particular work of either Emerson or Thoreau but ...
— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives
... popular ear by reason of its effective use of bell-chimes. There is another folk-melody in the opera which has gained publicity in a manner different from that which made "Ay ouchnem" and "Schne Minka" widely known; it is the melody of the "Glory" song—"Slava"—which Beethoven used in the scherzo of one ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... Scherzo e rido Crudel, nel tuo dolor; T m' insegnasti infido A dare affanni vn Cor. Io godo, ...
— Amadigi di Gaula - Amadis of Gaul • Nicola Francesco Haym
... E major Scherzo, Op. 54, with its skimming, swallowlike flight, its delicate figuration, its evanescent hintings at a serious something in the major trio? Have you ever heard Pachmann purl through this exquisitely conceived, contrived and balanced composition, truly a classic? Whaur is your Willy Mendelssohn ...
— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker
... would work to happier ends within the elastic form of the Liszt symphonic poem. He wrote symphonies and a "symphoniette" on Russian themes, but his genius is best displayed in freer forms. His third symphony, redolent of Haydn, with a delightful scherzo, his fugues, quartet, ballets, operas—he composed fifteen, some of which are still popular in Russia—prove him a past master in his technical medium; but the real engaging and fantastic personality of ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker
... plunged again into an Andante and Scherzo of Beethoven. How the girl threw herself into it, bringing out the wailing love-song of the Andante, the dainty tripping mirth of the Scherzo, in a way which set every nerve in Langham vibrating! Yet the art of it was wholly unconscious. The music was the mere natural voice of her inmost self. ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward |
