Beethoven
- Created by: castielhowlter
- Created on: 19-12-17 18:13
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- Pathetique
- Dynamics
- Just listen to dynamics (it changes too often to memorise)
- Intro has accents (fp) and sforzandos (bars 1-4) for drama
- Lots of switches between p and ff and crescendos
- Instruments
- Fortepiano, less dynamics and more strident tone
- Pitch
- Bar 10- rapidly descending chromatic scale covers 2.5 8ves)
- Rocket theme covers 2 8ves)
- Monophonic transition to recapitulation covers 3 8ves that are low.
- Rhythm
- Intro with dotted rhythms is dramatic
- Intro sweet Eb maj section has constant LH semiquavers
- Syncopation on rising rocket theme
- Development section: between rocket themes is straight crotchet version of dotted intro theme
- Melody
- Scalic filigree (eg bar 4)
- Rapid descending chromatic scale (bar 10) with wide range of 2.5 8ves
- Bars 1-3 are sequences
- Melody in 8ves (sweet intro Eb major)
- Transitions between first and second subject is chromatically ascending murky bass
- Between exposition repeat, the rocket theme returns in major key
- Development section has chromatically descending tremelos from Bb to Ab
- Chromatic broken chords in jangly development section
- Monophonic transition section is a sequence
- The coda is the same as into but in different key
- Harmony
- C Minor
- Modulation to related key Eb major (eg bar 5, the start of the sweet intro)
- Modulation to unrelated key Eb minor (eg second subject of exposition bar 51)
- Diminished 7ths (bar 2)
- Perfect cadence between and ending all sections
- Murky bass in theme a exposition
- Development section in G minor
- Tempo
- Intro is grave
- Time sig is C (4 crotchets)
- Exposition is allegro di molto e con brio
- Time sig is C with line through it (2 minims)
- Intro is grave
- Sound/Silence
- Intro has lots of rests (typical romantic) for drama
- Coda has same grave intro but missing the first chord of each bar. This use of silence and rests highlights the dramatic tension
- Texture
- Homophonic introduction
- Monophonic leading into recapitulation
- Dynamics
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