Pathetique Sonata
- Created by: nnouman
- Created on: 22-02-19 11:08
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- Beethoven
- Tonality
- The key of the piece is in C minor
- music modulates to Eb major which is the relative major and F minor which is the subdominant
- Music modulates to unrelated keys such as E Minor - development
- Harmony
- Music features many chromatic, especially diminished sevenths
- Distinctive perfect cadences at the end of the movement
- interrupted cadence in bar 9
- use of augmented 6th chords
- Melody
- slow introduction is based on a short motif of 6 notes
- Scalic passages such as descending chromatic scale
- Melodic lines also include arpeggios and broken chords
- Ornamentation - acciaccaturas, mordents and trills
- Texture
- Slow introduction has homophonic passages
- Right hand plays octaves
- Long depending monophonic
- melody-dominated homophony = second subject
- broken chord, and thirds in trills
- tempo, meter and rhythm
- introduction is marked grave (very slow)
- It is in common time
- Sextuplets can be seen
- main section is allegro de molto e con brio
- Continuous quavers are in the right hand part
- Staccato are important in the right hand of the first subject
- Tonality
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