Beethoven 1st Movement from Piano Sonata no.8 in C Minor 'Pathetique'
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- Beethoven: 1st Movement from Piano Sonata no.8 in C Minor 'Pathetique'
- Performing
- Piano
- Many Fortepiano (similar to accents)
- Very Expressive many dynamics
- Sustaining Pedal
- Piano
- Tempo/ Rhythm Meter
- Introduction is Grave (Very slow)
- Dotted Rhythm in first bar
- Very rapid notes (septuplets)
- The main section is described as 'Allegro di molto e con brio' Meaning very fast with vigour
- Staccato Crotchets
- Continuous Quavers
- Melody
- Introduction is made up of a six note motif
- Scalic passages
- Descending chromatic scale at the end of intro
- Ascending scale bar11
- Arpeggios and Broken Chords
- Mordents
- Trills
- Harmony and Tonality
- C Minor
- Modulates to Eb Major and F Minor
- However also modulates to an unrelated key E Minor in the beginning
- Chromatic Chords
- Perfect Cadences
- Circle of fifths
- Diminished Sevenths
- C Minor
- Structure
- Sonata Form
- Slow Introduction (1-10)
- Exposition First Subject (11-50)
- Second Subject (51-132)
- Development (133-194)
- Recapitulation (195-294)
- Coda (295-310)
- Texture
- Introduction is homophonic
- Monophonic in RH in development
- Homophony in second subject
- Performing
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