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The intervening Doppio movimento, tempo di Mazurka, sends forth soft beneficent rays reminiscences of long ago, vague and vanishing, sweet and melancholy. But there is an end to this as to all such dreams.
The fioriture flit about as lightly as gossamer threads. The sweetly-sad longing of the first section becomes more disquieting in the doppio movimento, but the beneficial influence of the sun never quite loses its power, and after a little there is a relapse into the calmer mood, with a close like a hazy distance on a summer day. But all this sweetness enervates; there is poison in it.
"Smith, my boy," said O'Mally, moistening his lips, "you and I this night will pack up our little suit-cases and movimento, moto, viaggio, or whatever the Dago word is for move on. I'm out of the game; the stakes are too high. I pass, signorina." "How could you do it?" sobbed Kitty. Merrihew patted her hand and scowled. "What an ado!" said La Signorina, shrugging. "So you all desert me?"
A little thread connects this with the chorale-like introduction of the second theme. The theme is strongly and abruptly modulated, perhaps a little too much so. Tausig tied the little thread to a doppio movimento in two-four time, but thereby resulted sextolets, which threw the chorale into still bolder relief. Then followed a passage a tempo, in which the principal theme played hide and seek.
Hurrying to a clamorous height, the pace glides into a Movimento di Valzer, in massed volume, with the frolicking figure in festive array. To softest tapping of lowest strings and drums, a shadow of the second figure passes here and there, with a flash of harp. Mr.
The doppio movimento is pulse-stirring a strong, curt and characteristic theme for treatment. Here is power, and in the expanding prologue flashes more than a hint of the tragic. The D flat Melody is soothing, charged with magnetism, and urged to a splendid fever of climax.
God grant that we may soon be able to repeat them. Your DOPPEL PEPS, alias "Double Extract de Peps," or "Double Stout Peps con doppio movimento sempre crescendo al fffff," which latter we shall live to witness at the performance of the "Nibelungen."
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