Cassation (Music)
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Cassation is a minor form consisting of a suite of 18th century short musical works, usually played outside , and almost always beginning with a march
. These suites could have up to seven movement
s.
Haydn, Mozart and Dittersdorf
all wrote in this form.
The derivation of the name is uncertain but interesting. The only link is the Court of Cassation, so some feel that the march signaled the end of a court session and some marching outside. Others say it came from the German "gausse," meaning alley. Others take the word which implies broken pieces, since each one is so short.
March (music)
A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John...
. These suites could have up to seven movement
Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...
s.
Haydn, Mozart and Dittersdorf
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
----August Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.-1739-1764:...
all wrote in this form.
The derivation of the name is uncertain but interesting. The only link is the Court of Cassation, so some feel that the march signaled the end of a court session and some marching outside. Others say it came from the German "gausse," meaning alley. Others take the word which implies broken pieces, since each one is so short.