Mozart's Wet Canteen
HERE was a comical note about that little flute quartet in A Major of Mozart’s (K298) which 1ZM played the other evening. To begin with, the announcer made it sound more than ‘ordinarily interesting by saying it would be played by a trio. (It is-but with an
additional flautist). So when you were just wondering what could have hap--pened to the fourth player, the tune of the first movement began, being the identical notes at first of "The Minstrel Boy." That could have explained where the flautist was. But then Mozart: plays you a trick. The notes that follow (after the words "to the war’’) are the unmistakable notes of another well-known tune, "In Cellar Cool" to wit. So that if you allow Mozart’s tune to suggest the words that fit its notes, you get something like ‘this: "The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, upon a barrel resting."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 358, 3 May 1946, Page 14
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153Mozart's Wet Canteen New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 358, 3 May 1946, Page 14
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