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allegros are ubiquitous in the repertory,
you can find them everywhere, so I won’t
say much about them but that they’re
the next step up from andante, therefore
sprightly, energized, they’ll often start,
or end, sonatas, and their derivatives,
string quartets, concertos, symphonies,
et cetera, engaging listeners, at first,
then wishing them a cheery farewell,
after an often melancholy middle spell,
they’re here again in the two following
quintets, not unexpectedly, at the
beginning of each, and at their end
l – Allegro
ll – Larghetto
lll – Menuetto
lV – Allegretto con Variazioni
allegretto is slightly slower than
allegro
larghetto, meanwhile, is slightly faster
than largo, largo is slower even than
adagio, so that larghetto is somewhere
between the two, you’ll melt, believe
me, at this one
l – Allegro vivace
ll – Andante
lll – Scherzo (Presto)
lV – Theme and Variations (Andantino)
V – Allegro giusto
thirty years have elapsed between
them, from 1789 to 1819, listen for
the Classical Period becoming the
Romantic Era
a clue, you can sing along with the
Mozart, you can’t anymore with the
Romantics
a quintet, incidentally, was usually
comprised of a string quartet,
however varied these strings, note,
might have been, with whichever
instrument would make up a fifth,
according to which the quintet was
identified, thus a clarinet quintet was
a clarinet with a string quartet, a piano
quintet, a string quartet plus a piano
other variants will follow
enjoy
R ! chard
psst: the theme in the fourth movement
variations of “The Trout“ is from a