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"Beware the facile and tastelet triplet..."
on: June 19, 2011, 03:52:53 PM
"...to which even a passing shake would be preferable"

This on the footnotes of my copy of Beethoven's Pathetique. Editor is referring to the little mordents sprinkled throughout to first movement.

Just checked wikipedia and it says the same (i.e more than 2/3 total time spent on marked note, less time spent on the note above). I guess by shake he means even less time on the upper note. (e.g. Editor says 1/4th time on upper note, Wikipedia has 1/8th of the time on the upper note)

Anyone have any you-tube examples of how it sounds when these are well executed to when they are performed tastelessly?

Thanks, T.
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