Mikael Rasmusson wrote:

>Dear List members, your views on humour in music.....
>
>I enjoy all sorts of expressions and emotions in music, as long as they
>are musically convincing.

I never know exactly what people mean when they talk about humour in
music. Is it slapstick, like the Musical Joke, or is it the sly stuff one
finds in Beethoven string quartets? is it the sarcasm in Bartok's Concerto
for Orchestra? The puffed- up Strauss' of Ein Heldenleben or his wild
rowdy scenes from Rosenkavalier?

What kind of musical humor is it that people who don't like humour don't
like? My favorite emotional bouquet is joy- through -sadness that can be
found in Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Elgar,
Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Grieg, etc, etc, etc.

Mimi Ezust, smiling through tears and sweltering, too
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