After a two-bar woodwind link, where the key modulates to D minor, the opening melody is repeated a tone higher than original (bars 19 - 23). In contrast to the introduction, Beethoven establishes the tonic key by engaging a harmony which is strongly related to C major. The harmony is in root position and the tonic-dominant link is mainly emphasised towards the end of the first subject (bars 29 - 33) with repeated G and C notes in the brass and timpani and a full orchestral texture. Just as the original idea had the function of linking the Introduction to the first subject, the related idea in bar 18 links the C major version of the tune with its repeat a tone higher, in D minor. The link of thematic ideas was an important feature of later Classical pieces and it would not be unusual for Beethoven to continue the practice.
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The first movement of Beethoven's 1st symphony is in sonata form made up of an exposition including a 1st and 2nd subject, transition and codetta motifs from which will be explored often in unrelated keys within the development section. The development can be seen to be divided into 4sections. The 1st section of the development (bar 110-135) features rapid modulation through a cycle of 5ths. At bar 110 following a descending G7 in the 2nd time bar, the key suddenly moves to an A major chord in its 1st inversion (a tertiary relation to the tonic key of C). The initial melody idea in the development is the dotted quaver-semiquaver motif taken from bar 14-15 of the exposition section.
These sections are the exposition, which starts from the first bar in K.333, the development, which between bars 63 and 93 and the recapitulation that occurs from bar 93 until the end of the piece. Poulenc’s Sonata is written in ternary form, which means that it follows an A-B-A structure. In this specific piece, the A section starts at bar 1, the B section starts at bar 26, then at bar 58 the A section returns again. In Mozart’s K.333 there are clear perfect cadences used in the piece that help reinforce the tonality, however in Poulenc’s Sonata although there are perfect cadences some of them are not completed and are instead suggested and then interrupted. In Mozart’s K.333 the cadences are used to reinforce the tonality, such as in bars 9-10 where the cadence is in the tonic key.
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1750-1825) THE CLASSICAL PERIOD OF MUSIC 1) TIME OF GREAT MUSICAL EXPERIMENTATION AND DISCOVERY 2) CENTERS AROUND ACHIEVEMENTS OF VIENNESE SCHOOL A) HAYDN B) MOZART C) BEETHOVEN 3) THREE CHALLENGING PROBLEMS A) EXPLORE MAJOR-MINOR SYSTEM TO ITS FULLEST B) TO PERFECT A LARGE FORM OF ABSOLUTE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC (THE SONATA CYCLE) C) TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN ITS (SONATA CYCLE) VARIOUS TYPES 1) SONATA 2) CONCERTO SYMPHONY 3) ELEMENTS OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD 1) ELEGANT AND LYRICAL MELODIES A) ELEGANT AND LYRICAL MELODIES B) CLEAR-CUT CADENCES 2) THE HARMONIES THAT SUSTAINED THESE MELODIES A) FIRMLY ROOTED IN THE KEY RHYTHM 3) A) MUSIC WAS IN EITHER 2, 3, 4, OR 6/8 B) STAYED IN RHYTHMIC STYLE IT BEGAN WITH 4) FORM A) UNFOLDED
It started before the Romantic period, but it become popular with German composers of the nineteenth century. The first generally accepted example of a song cycle is Ludwig van Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, opus 98. It considered being the first true song cycle by a major composer. He composed in 1816, and it can be seen as the first real song cycle by a great composer in the sense that it is a number of songs by voice and piano that are clearly related with each other. The six songs of the cycle flow into each other, the tonal structure is very clear, and the poetic structure is also clear.
Theme two starts at about 55 seconds and takes us off with a happy, major, melodic feeling that ends around 1:30. In traditional sonata form, the first two themes are usually repeated. As you can tell, that is exactly what Beethoven did. Soon after the repeat of the first two themes, we move into the development at around the 3:00 mark. In the beginning of the development, it gives you a hint of the first theme, and moves into a more minor sound at around 3:18, taking us off into a random dark sounding harmonic tangent.
The music of the Classical Period is characterised by objectivity and emotional restraint, clarity of form and adherence to certain structural principles. Although Beethoven made use of the concepts of music predominantly in the style of the classical era, he incorporates several aspects which are more evident in the romantic period. As a composer of the late classical and early romantic periods, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 epitomises the stylistic characteristics of the classical era but also a progression into romanticism is evident. Structure • Sonata form – repeat of the exposition was predominantly used in the classical period • Exposition x 2: o 1st subject – b.1-43 o Bridge passage – b.44-58 o 2nd subject – b.59-94 o Codetta – b.95-124 • Development – b.125-247 • Recapitulation: o 1st subject – b.248-287 o Bridge passage – b.288-302 o 2nd subject – b.303-372 • Extended Coda – b.373-502 Pitch Melody: • Piece begins in C minor with several modulations throughout: o The second subject modulates to E flat major through the descending arpeggios in the bridge passage o The development is in F minor before modulating back to the tonic of C minor in the recapitulation o The second subject in the recapitulation is in C major, the tonic major o The piece is back to C minor in the coda and there is an extended tutti perfect cadence from bar 496 to the end o The modulations are of major and minor tonalities, a classical characteristic • From bar 6 there is the use of imitation and sequences in the throughout the strings before the whole orchestra restates the theme at bar 18.
For him a ‘symphony’ was defined as being a sounding together of instruments. Webern’s Symphony is made up of 2 movements; The first movement is Ruhig Schreitend or moving quietly and is loosely in sonata form. The second movement is in theme of variation made up of 1 theme and 7 variations and coda. Movement 2’s underlying process is perpetual variation. It reaches this continual variation by transformation of small motifs through changes in pitch, rhythm and tone colour.
His influence upon later composers is immeasurable; Haydn's most illustrious pupil, Beethoven, was the direct beneficiary of the elder master's musical imagination, and Haydn's shadow lurks within (and sometimes looms over) the music of composers like Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Franz Joseph Haydn is the composer who, more than any other,