Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 3
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Duration | 7 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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- Welcome to Part 3 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas!
- I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 3. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience at all!). Remember that you are able to watch the lectures as many times as you like, at whatever pace is comfortable for you.
- As I?ve done with the first two sets of Beethoven lectures, I look forward to meeting with students?online and in person, in various cities. The dates and locations will be posted in the Announcements and Events section, as part of the course content. So please remember to check back there for details.
- In these four new lectures, we will explore the following sonatas:
- ? Sonata Op. 10, No. 1
- ? Sonata Op. 22
- ? Sonata Op. 31, No. 2
- ? Sonata Opp. 78, 79, 81a
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Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 3 at Coursera Curriculum
welcome to class
Welcome!
Syllabus
Getting to Know You
Op. 10 No. 1
Opus 10 number 1: The "c minor Mood"
Opus 10 number 1: Extremes of Tempo and Character
1st Movement: Pulse as a Source of Character
1st Movement: High Drama within the Conventions of the Time
1st Movement: A Development with New Material
1st Movement: Hammer Blows in c minor
2nd Movement: An Adagio Oasis
2nd Movement: A Coda that Expands the Movement?s Scope
3rd Movement: Prestissimo!
3rd Movement: Short-Short-Short-LONG
3rd Movement: Beginning with Defiance; Ending with Mystery
Final Quiz ? Op. 10, No. 1
Op. 22
Op 22: The Sonata that Washed Itself
1st Movement: Wit and Athleticism
1st Movement: Playing by the Rules
2nd Movement: An Aria on the Piano
2nd Movement: Effortless Mastery
3rd Movement: A Rhythmic Link to the Rest of the Work
4th Movement: A Grazioso Goodbye to the Earliest Period
Final Quiz ? Op. 22
op. 31 no. 2
Op. 31 no. 2: An Adventurous, Unsettling Masterwork
1st Movement: A Recitative hat is not a Recitative; An Introduction that is not an Introduction
1st Movement: A Confrontation of Opposites
1st Movement: The Structural Lines Grow Blurrier
1st Movement: And Finally, the Recitative!
2nd Movement: Harmonic and Emotional Stability at Las
2nd Movement: Evoking Voices and Instruments
2nd Movement: Exploring the Piano?s Extreme Registers
3rd Movement: A Slow-Moving Perpetual Motion
3rd Movement: Anxiety and Ambuguity
Final Quiz ? Op. 31, No. 2
opp. 78, 79 and 81a
Op. 78, 1st Movement: After a Long Pause, A Sonata Beethoven Loved
Op. 78, 1st and 2nd Movements: Warmth and Humor
Op. 79, 1st Movement: Beethoven, Modest and Unbuttoned
Op. 79, 1st Movement: Phrase Lengths as a Source of Humor
Op. 79, 2nd and 3rd Movements: Sonata Movements as Character Pieces
Op. 81a: The Birth of Program Music for the Piano
Op. 81a, 1st Movement: Le-Be-Wohl
Op. 81a, 1st Movement: Extreme Economy of Gesture?
Op. 81a, 1st Movement: ?And a Return to Expansiveness
Op. 81a, 2nd Movement: Conveying Absence through Harmonic Uncertainty
Op. 81a, 3rd Movement: After Melancholy, Euphoriac
Final Quiz ? Op. 78, 79, 81a
Listening to the Sonatas
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