<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>Dear Mitch,</div><div><br></div><div>You might consider the Haydn Creation opening (plus, its extra-musical implications). </div><div><br></div><div>Also, the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.289062); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.222656); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.222656); ">Pathetique Sonata, Chopin's C#m Etude, Op 25.</span></div><div><br></div><div>If you're interested in tracing this phenomenon's historical origins, a consideration would be recit/aria, which, for me, some later exx (esp 19th c) seem to imitate.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Donna Doyle</div><div>Queens College, CUNY<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><div><br><div>Sent from my iPhone </div><div>---------------</div></div><div><br>On Oct 21, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Mitch Ohriner <<a href="mailto:mohriner@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:mohriner@gmail.com">mohriner@gmail.com</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello Collected Wisdom and Beloved Scholars,<br><br>I’m interested in studying the emergence of tempo from the perspective of the listener. One viable case study for this phenomenon is the class of pieces that begin with short, improvisatory passages that precede more temporally patterned movements proper. <br>
<br>This is slightly different than the phenomenon previously discussed on this list in which the most salient level of time-span organization is initially obscured in preference for a faster or slower rate (i.e., London’s “metric fakeout”).<br>
<br>A paragon of what I’m looking for would be Chopin’s G-minor Ballade, Op. 23. I’ve also been directed to Schumann’s String Quartet No. 3, Op. 41, no. 3.<br><br>Do you know of other tonal examples like these? I’ll take responses off-list unless they’re of general interest.<br>
<br>Thank you for your thoughts and I look forward to seeing many of you at our Annual Meeting next week.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Mitch Ohriner<br><br><a href="mailto:mohriner@gmail.com"></a><a href="mailto:mohriner@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:mohriner@gmail.com">mohriner@gmail.com</a></a><br>Assistant Professor of Music Theory<br>
Shenandoah Conservatory<br>Winchester, VA
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