[Smt-talk] Pieces contrary to the minor/major = sad/non-sad stereotype

[robert gjerdingen]

Randolph,

	One possibility might be Gluck's major-mode aria from his Orfeo ed  
Euridice (1762): Che farò senza Euridice, which has an extremely  
doleful text lamenting the loss of Orfeo's wife.

Bob Gjerdingen
Northwestern University