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• n  a fast movement (usually in triple time)

• The scherzo of the symphony opened with plaintive bassoon bleats: President MacPhail offering Cleveland the Brooklyn Bridge and Prospect Park in trade for Pitcher Bob Feller.
• In his scherzo he quoted from Cara Nome, harking back to the Christmas Eve in 1910 when Luisa Tetrazzini sang it on the square by Lotta's Fountain.
• The symphony is broadly conceived, includes a bubbling scherzo, and, by use of spacious, interwoven patterns, manages to give the effect of melody without ever quite stating one.

News & Articles

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• Overnight review: Cactus Pear Music Festival
  FIRST TAKE: Pianist James Winn made his statement, followed by those of violinist Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio, violist Daniel Panner and cellist Dmitri Atapine, before the piano and the string trio played together and against each other in a lovely, sometimes dramatic dialogue. Winn started the concert with a zippy reading of Clara Schumann's short Scherzo, Op. 10, the pianist negotiating the sharp ...
  Sept. 7, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News

Quotes

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• Alma Mahler in HULIQ
  In the Scherzo, he represented the un-rhythmic games of the two children, tottering in zigzags over the sand,Alma wrote. "Ominously the childish voices become more and more tragic, and at the end die out in a whimper."
• James Galway in Belfast Telegraph
  He arranged a piece for ten flutes, based on Mendelssohn's Scherzo,says Galway, adding quickly: "You know the one that goes 'da-da-da-da-da.........."
• Charles Ives in Boston Globe (registration)
  Ives called the scherzo "TSIAJ" -- "This Scherzo Is A Joke" -- and the players delighted in the woozy wonders of its quotations of famous tunes.