autumnal

A Sunday morning devoid of playing the organ - are we all ready for No Music Day on the 21st?

Instead listened to Bax's 2nd violin sonata - decided that Bax is late autumnal most of the time - flurries of cold darkening skies - the slow movement a wistful remembrance of springs and summers long gone. Are whole genres set in mood? - difficult to exsult with impressionism and English pastoralism.

Thought of yesterday's post around happy music and remembered Granados - Goyescas - the first of which Los Requiebros would be ecstatically happy if I could play it up to speed!

Now the next question, at what point does a particular musical idiom become the signature idiom for a time and a place? why bold open fourths and fifths speaking of the American frontier (and final frontier)? why did typical English pastoralism seem wrong whenever I heard it in the sound track for All Creatures Great and Small - that idiom speaks to me of a spread of England from Gloucestershire to East Anglia (thinking of RVWs In the Fen Country, or the whole Howells/Gurney/Finzi Severn through to Berkshire thing, and cannot be the soundtrack for the northern Yorkshire dales?