MUSIC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Piano Sonata, Minuet, Scherzo
26 Dec 2015
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Composers of his time are viewed as artists who suffer and create for humanity. He was committed to the principles of classicism, but not to every one of its features. He had messy apartments and a messy personal life. The french revolution for many composers represented the highest ideals of freedom and human aspiration. His music was always to the vast extremes of emotion: there was always a sense of urgency that made it very violent, solemn, severe, or exceptionally gentle. He was also less interested in pleasing others, more so in expressing himself. What sets beethoven apart from mozart or haydn was his mood of excitement and urgency: he achieved this by maximizing virtually all musical elements, high and low registers, sharper syncopations, stronger accents, harsher dissonances. Fragmentation- the two middle pitches of the bridge theme are isolated and echoed between high and low registsers.
