Jean-Philippe Rameau by Cuthbert Girdlestone

Author:Cuthbert Girdlestone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: INscribe Digital
Published: 2014-04-16T04:00:00+00:00

The vite is built on a spidery theme with witty jumps of sevenths that turn to octaves in the answer (ex.181); it skips in and out every few bars. It has a counter-subject of scales and a second part which appears later on as a kind of second subject, first in A minor, then in G major. The principle of contrast which was to characterize early sonata form is there but not the key sequence, since the first close— after an excursion into D major and a return to G—is in E minor and the middle portion in A minor, whence we return via D to G. One of the happiest moments is when, after this “second subject” has been given out, the spidery theme returns to a counterpoint of part of the counter-subject, tumbling down upon it inverted (ex. 182). It is a spritely and highly-strung movement of some hundred bars, long enough for concert performance.

Ex. 181

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