Scherzo is a lively and humorous genre of instrumental music, also called scherzo. Scherzo is light in speed, lively and clear in rhythm, and often shows a sudden contrast between strength and weakness, which has the characteristics of dance music and drama. It spread widely from17th century to19th century.

? The development of scherzo;

At the end of 1. 18, Franz Joseph Haydn used "Scherzo" as the title in the third movement of his piano sonata in F major, which was the first time that "Scherzo" appeared in the piano suite.

2. Classical period: Beethoven first used galloping scherzo instead of elegant minuet as a fixed movement in large instrumental suites such as symphonies, sonatas and string quartets.

It not only enriches the expressive force of scherzo, making it a genre that can express various musical images, but also improves scherzo from a dance genre that expresses external images to a drama genre that can express psychological phenomena and spiritual realm that change and develop in contradictions and conflicts.

3. The Romantic Period: Schubert generally uses scherzo in his sonatas and symphonies. Schubert's scherzo represents a genre, a customary language and a formal aesthetic feeling.

Mendelssohn's scherzo, on the other hand, maintains the mythical artistic conception and elegant temperament in his music, which has the dual characteristics of lyricism and scherzo, and most of them are in double beat.

4./kloc-After the 9th century, composers not only regarded scherzo as the movement of symphonies, sonatas and quartets, but also appeared independent music with lyrical, narrative and philosophical drama content.

? Scherzo writers and their works sharing;

1. Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C minor

2. Haydn's piano sonata in F major

3. Schubert's "Great" Symphony in C Major

4. Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream

5. Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet