If you get the musette (Lully’s), please tell me if I am right, and it
was probably written for strings. Anyway, it is as neat as—as neat as
Bach—on the piano; or seems so to my ignorance.
I play much of the Rigadoon but it is strange, it don’t come off _quite_
so well with me!
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There is the first part of the musette copied (from memory, so I hope
there’s nothing wrong). Is it not angelic? But it ought, of course, to
have the gavotte before. The gavotte is in G, and ends on the keynote
thus (if I remember):—
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staccato, I think. Then you sail into the musette.
_N.B._—Where I have put an ‘A,’ is that a dominant eleventh, or what? or
just a seventh on the D? and if the latter, is that allowed? It sounds
very funny. Never mind all my questions; if I begin about music (which
is my leading ignorance and curiosity), I have always to babble
questions: all my friends know me now, and take no notice whatever. The
whole piece is marked allegro; but surely could easily be played too
fast? The dignity must not be lost; the periwig feeling.