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The Violin Music Of Beethoven, 1902
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1quote in these columns, and which we will not spoil by curtailment—is virtually a delicious duet for the two instruments with a simple bass; the violin repeating the melody just given by the piano, and closing again in the tonic. The responsive section leads to G minor. There is no formal trio section, but another beautiful melody, which a soulful violinist can make much of is announced in the middle portion. We give the melody only, the accompaniment being a single triplet figure:—
3Ex. 22.
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7When this has been heard by each instrument in turn, there is a responsive melody in E flat minor, and a return to the principal theme. The theme shown in Example 22 reappears, but breaks off at the sixth bar when the piano has it with a chord of the sixth on C (C, E flat, A natural), and a considerably extended coda follows, in which the principal theme is alternated between the two instruments in the shortest motifs into which the melody could well be subdivided. But, after all, what are words and the dry bones of analysis in face of a movement of such unalloyed beauty? Put aside your showy concert pieces, gentle reader; secure a sympathetic pianist, and play it, with a certain inward feeling and refinement of expression, and the ears must be dull indeed which prove insensible to its charm. Be sparing with your close shake; purity of tone, well proportioned accents, and
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