Now doesn't that sound weird? Sounds like they just stop and add a beat every now and then. Haydn creates this illusion by fooling you as to where the downbeat is:
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If you notice, the first note is tied over from the third beat to the first so that you think that it is a half note on the downbeat. But no. You aren't quite sure where the downbeat us until the eighth measure. And then it starts all over again.
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My sight reading is held back by my weakness in recognizing rhythm in the notation, though I am slowly improving. I don't yet count time though I try to keep a pulse in a gentle swing in my body, and enough to approximate a doubling of the time for every flag added to a note. I'm sure I don't quite have the rhythm to use a downbeat properly. Still, I enjoyed "playing" the menuetto and trio in this page, but I'm sure the composer would say I hacked it badly. But for me, it was fun!
I like these trios quite a lot!
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