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spirito Spirit, con spirito: with spirit, with feeling spiritoso Spirited staccato Making each note brief and detached; the opposite of legato. In musical notation, a small dot under or over the head of the note indicates that it is to be articulated as staccato. stanza A verse of a song stem Vertical line that is directly connected to the ...
Piece of music, usually for a singer Aria di sorbetto: sorbet air: A short solo performed by a secondary character in the opera Arietta: little air: A short or light aria Arioso: airy A type of solo opera or operetta Ballabile: danceable (song) to be danced to Battaglia: battle: An instrumental or vocal piece suggesting a battle Bergamasca ...
I. Allegro con brio [ edit ] The first movement follows the sonata allegro format of the classical period , and borrows thematically from Beethoven's Piano Quartet No. 3 in C major , [ 5 ] WoO 36, from a decade earlier.
Joseph Haydn's String Quartets, Op. 64, is a set of six string quartets composed in 1790. Along with six earlier quartets published under the opus numbers 54 and 55, they are known as the Tost quartets, after the Hungarian violinist and later merchant Johann Tost who helped Haydn find a publisher for the works.
The quartet consists of four movements: . Allegro con brio (); Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato (); Scherzo: Allegro molto (F major); Allegro (F major) The theme of the finale is almost directly borrowed from the finale of his earlier string trio, Op. 9, No. 3 in C minor; the themes are very closely related.
The first movement is marked Allegro non troppo, ma con brio, and is in 9 8. Its opening is dominated by a cello solo in G major. The middle section is in G minor, though it passes through numerous keys before returning to G major by the end. The second movement is marked Adagio, and is in 2 4. It starts with a viola solo accompanied by cello ...
Allegro con spirito; Theme and variations: Cantabile; In the second quartet, the piano and the strings are equal partners. [2] It opens unusually with an Adagio assai movement. The second movement is in sonata form, in E-flat minor. Some elements seem to anticipate the last movement of the Piano Sonata No. 8, the Pathétique.
"This cannot be overstated", writes Ron Drummond; "the six string quartets of Opus 20 are as important in the history of music, and had as radically a transforming effect on the very field of musical possibility itself, as Beethoven's Third Symphony would 33 years later". [2]