Rosalie (music)

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Rosalie , Vetter Michel or Schusterfleck are derogatory names for the one or more tonal or real (ascending) sequencing of a multi-bar melody section (usually including the accompanying voices) by one note at a time. The names appeared around 1750 and testify to how much the gradually increasing sequences, which were so popular in the first half of the 18th century, were perceived as trite.

The name Rosalie goes back to the Italian folk song Rosalia mia cara , in which the sequencing in question is exemplary:

Rosalia mia cara.png

The second name is reminiscent of the folk song Cousin Michel was there last night , the middle section of which contains a Rosalie:

Cousin Michel.png

The word Schusterfleck was used by Joseph Riepel in various parts of his beginnings for musical typesetting . His first example of this is as follows:


  \ new Staff {\ relative c '' {\ partial 8 g8 c16 def g8 bes, bes ara d16 e fis g a8 c, cbr e16 f}}

Even Beethoven referred in this way to waltz by Anton Diabelli , of his Op Variations. 120 is based. He should have specifically meant this passage:

Diabelli Schusterfleck.png

swell

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Riepel 1752, p. 19. See also u. a. Riepel 1752, p. 26; Riepel 1755, p. 44.
  2. Beethoven 1825.