Wednesday 17 August 2011
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Tune of the Day: Study in G major by Gariboldi
from “20 Petites Etudes”
This third étude from Giuseppe Gariboldi's Twenty Studies starts off with a joyous 6/8-time theme marked “con grazia”, which is Italian for “with grace”. Within the piece you will find a very lyrical passage in E minor, and even three “hidden” 3/4-time measures in which quavers are to be thought in three groups of two instead of two groups of three. The theme is then repeated, but at the end the composer decided to speed things up, and inserted a run of sixteenth notes!