Norman M. Schwartz wrote:
>Bert Bailey wrote:
>
>>... The Mozart/Schubert set with the Trout and the "Answer the telephone"
>>piano quartet are particularly fine.
>
>Is this Virgin: 7243 5 61454 2 9? I have it for the Schubert Adagio &
>Rondo concertante, (D. 487) a long standing favorite of mine! However I'm
>not familiar with the "Answer the telephone" bit. ...
Mozart K. 478, G minor piano quartet.
The rhythm of the opening gesture of the main theme:
half note, dotted quarter, eighth, [barline] two eighths and a quarter,
[ one, two ] [three, four] AND //one AND two.
is that of the words:
An---swer the//tel-e-phone.
A minor trade secret revealed..
Joel Lazar
Bethesda MD