Beethoven MUS HST 70 Mindy LaTour O’Brien Listening Journals #1 Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F Major (1st movement) I enjoyed listening to this piece. All throughout the first movement‚ I constantly felt tension rising and relaxing (tension rising because of the repetitive melodies with crescendo and changing the melody key to a minor key and tension relaxing when it has descend or a key changes to a Major); I think this was Beethoven’s intention to have the audience
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in Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata (#21‚ Op 53) As the length of sonatas grew under pens such as Beethoven‚ the free exercise of many layers of musical contrast kept the longer works fresh and palatable. This sonata doesn’t have as bold of contrasts as Beethoven’s later works‚ but they still exist. The first movement starts with a quiet intro that swells with excitement at measure 11‚ only to calm back to a quiet simmering two measures later. As a middle period sonata‚ the dynamics do not switch
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2013 Research Paper While many men and women throughout history have made significant‚ valuable and lasting contributions to society‚ Ludwig Van Beethoven is an especially remarkable figure worthy of special note because he embraced and devoted his whole life to music. Born to a drunkard father and an unhappy mother‚ the young Beethoven was exposed to a brutal training in music at the hands of his father‚ who hoped that the young boy would prove to be another prodigy like Mozart. Ludwig
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Ludwig vans Beethoven‚ who as one of the greatest composers of all time wrote most of his music while he was deaf! It seems impossible‚ but what a genius he was. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn‚ Germany on December 16‚ 1770. His mother died while he was a teenager and his father was very abusive and a crazy alcoholic. Beethoven came from a very musical family. His grandfather became a conductor and his father played and taught piano and violin. From a very young age‚ Beethoven was a perfectionist
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Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the well-known music composer and pianist. He was born on December 17‚ 1770 in Bonn. Beethoven received his early training from his father and other musicians‚ as he carried out his earliest concert accompanying a young singer at the age of eight. Later on‚ he began to attend music lessons with a court organist teacher‚ Van Den Eden‚ unfortunately it did not last long. In 1779‚ Tobias Pfeiffer taught him and he began to attend in classes with a musician called
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works for violin that will appeal to all lovers of western art music. Bach: Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin The Baroque period includes music written from approximately 1600 to 1750. The most famous composer of the time was Johann Sebastian Bach who lived from March 21‚ 1685 to July 28‚ 1750. Some of his most famous and most profound violin works are the six sonatas and partitas for violin. These six sonatas and partitas
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The wonders of Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven started his musical career at an early age and although he was deaf he became known as the most famous and influential composers in the world of classical music. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music‚ he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best known compositions include 9 symphonies‚ 5 concertos for piano‚ 32 piano sonatas‚ and 16 string quartets. He also composed
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Beethoven was‚ and remains today‚ an influential figure in the history of classical music. Perhaps no other composer in history wrote music of such inspiring power and expressiveness. His influence on the last 150 years of music is unequalled. a genius he was.He was the first musician to link the classical period of 18th-century and the novel birth of Romanticism. Beethoven’s absolute step forward in the world of music came in his instrumental work‚ not forgetting his symphonies. In contrast to
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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
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Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor‚ Op. 13 – Ludwig Van Beethoven Beethoven wrote this piece 1798. A publisher suggested the name ‘Pathétique’ with Beethoven’s mutual agreement at the same time. The word pathétique means emotional and passionate‚ not to be confused with a very similar English word – pathetic. C minor was one of Beethoven’s favourite keys because the sonority is dark‚ powerful and emotional. A large range of dynamics are used (compared to other composers in the same era) to convey and
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