The Moonlight By Beethoven Analysis

Everyone has heard Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. This piece of music has 3 movements, which are major changes to the song such as the key,tempo,and volume. This piece of music is very passionate, it was written after Beethoven had gone deaf. from the eerie but beautiful begging to very intense near the end. This song can be compared to Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, which also has a lot of passionate written on its pages. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata begins very eerie and soft. It can make you feel very sad, calm, or even both. This is because of this is due to the music being in C-sharp minor. That specific key is played to usually make you feel one of those two things. In the first movement (the first 6 minutes of the track) this eerie
sound has a repetition. This repetition continues through the entire first movement. The music does seem to change dynamics throughout this movement but very subtly. This is similar to the book when the monster is telling his story of living with his protectors and is very sad and wants to meet his protectors and feel accepted and loved so he tries to talk with the blind man when the young ones were out but he was scared and a quote from the book says “‘My heart beat quick; this was the hour and moment of trial, which would decide my hopes or realize my fears. The servants were gone to a neighbouring fair. All was silent in and around the cottage; it was an excellent opportunity; yet, when I proceeded to execute my plan, my limbs failed me and I sank to the ground. Again I rose, and exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat. The fresh air revived me, and with renewed determination I approached the door of their cottage”. The monster is very passionate about meeting his protectors which connects to the piece of music which comes of very passionate by its sound and its backstory.
The second movement is light and makes me feel like dancing, this is because the tempo has picked up as well as the piece is more allegro now.
It is much more cheerful and happy. The melody is completely changed from the first movement to the second. The notes are played very legato with some staccato notes. This reminds me of when he talks with the old man. “‘The old man paused and then continued, ‘If you will unreservedly confide to me the particulars of your tale, I perhaps may be of use in undeceiving them. I am blind and cannot judge of your countenance, but there is something in your words which persuades me that you are sincere. I am poor and an exile, but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature.’ ‘‘Excellent man! I thank you and accept your generous offer. You raise me from the dust by this kindness; and I trust that, by your aid, I shall not be driven from the society and sympathy of your fellow creatures.’ He starts to feel hopeful and happy that the old man see’s him for him just like how the music picks up and begins to feel more light and happy. He is so passionate towards the old man for what he said. This also ties in the romantic concept of passion between the book and
song.
What I believe to be the third wave becomes much more intense. Almost all the notes are staccato. There are dozens of crescendos and decrescendos. This part also makes me feel eerie, tense and like I am in need of running from something. What seems like intense scales repeat several times. In the book frankenstein is attacked by felix who only views someone hurting his father.” Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick. I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel.” This makes my heart race just as the music in the 3rd movement does this is perfect for what could be a soundtrack to this scene in the book.
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is a very passionate song with many dynamics, beat changes and intensity, just like in the book Frankenstein. These two also have a lot of passion in them. From the way the song sounds… to how it's played… to the actions in the book when frankie stein's protectors only see the monster. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata could be the soundtrack to this book.