Listening Guide – Movement 3: Scherzo. Schattenhaft
Transcript Scherzo’s movement of the Seventh Symphony is Mahler’s dance macabre, a ghost-like nightmarish fantasy that contrasts a spiderweb of weaving and bobbing triplets and strings, punctuated by darting wind tones that seem to come from every direction. With happy-go-lucky waltz that overflows with exuberance and vitality. A whirling ghostly tarantella set in a nocturnal […]