Describe the ways in which Beethoven makes use of form and tonality in the first movement The first movement of Beethoven’s First Symphony is in sonata form. This means that the movement is divided into four sections, the first subject, the bridge, the second subject and the codetta. The movement starts off in the tonic key of C major. It remains in this key for a few bars until in changes to D minor in bar nineteen. The first subject starts at bar thirteen and ends at bar thirty-three on a perfect cadence in C major.
The second subject is split into two main melodic ideas which are both in the dominant of F major. The first melodic idea (bars 23-38) leads to a perfect cadence (bars 37-8) which is then followed by the second idea (bars 39) than leads to the codetta (50-63). In the codetta there are two more ideas in the dominant key. The first is at the beginning of bar 50. This is repeated up an octave in bar 54 before leading via a two bar dominant pedal (57-8) to a perfect cadence in F (58-9).
How does the first movement end? The movement ends with repeated signs. 9. How is the music from the first movement of Mozart’s 40th symphony an example of music from the Classical period? From the composition of the symphony and the composer’s death symphony concerts had featured Mozart’s music.
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
Another example would be how on measure 128 the beginning of the piece is repeated but in a minor key, right after the long fermata, it changes in to a major key B flat major. At bar 35 the key D+ now modulates in to the dominant key A+, then after at 60 the key changes in to A-.After measure 66 there are different variations of the 4 note motif Beethoven likes to use the subdominant key in this case G+ in a special place, and you can see that he uses it very well close to the beginning of the coda. Like parts of a forest illuminated by the shifting sunlight that peaks through a cloudy sky, this proto-Impressionist piece repeats its quiet yet enchanted melody, with variations in pitch and length. The constant triplet figure in sixteenths in the beginning is found throughout the majority of the
This suite, part of a series of four “overtures” (as Bach called them) represent experimenting by Bach, since they resemble a French style music used by Italian-born composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. Suite No. 3, which contains “Air on a G string”, is the most popular of all the overtures. The “Air on a G String” is the brief second movement of this suite. Although the full suite includes trumpets, oboe, and tympani as well as the strings and a bass line usually played on harpsichord and cello, this movement is reduced to the string orchestra only.
And the Glory of the Lord “And the Glory of the Lord” is a chorus taken from the oratorio Messiah written by Handel in 1741. An oratorio is like an opera, but based on Biblical themes. It was written during the Baroque period in music. The piece has a very bright A major tonic key and a dominant E major key it also has a supertonic key which is B major . The whole piece is assembled around four different motives.
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.
Fifth Symphony The Fifth Symphony is one of the major symphonies composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Premiered in 1808, it featured the whole orchestra. The first movement is in C minor, four chords are thrust forward in monophonic texture to open the work. The work is built upon a short motive which repeats throughout the piece with slight variation each time, creating a cyclical structure to the entire symphony. The four note motive repeats in the first theme constantly repeated with variation in rhythm, instrumentation, and dynamic level.
After a repetition, the tonality changes to “C major”, but it is still in A section, which refers to theme one. Accordingly, the A section embraces binary sections. Then, the B section begins with a “short- short- long” motive in an “A major” key. After raising two themes, the C section starts by changing key to “f# minor” key which is the subordinate key of “A major”. Then, begin with measure number 58, the B section returns followed by a repetition of an A section.