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Welcome to Class

Welcome to Part 5 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas!

Syllabus

Getting to Know You

Op. 27, No. 1

The ?Moonlight?s? Unjustly Neglected Sibling

Bridging the Gap Between Fantasy and Sonata

1st Movement: Unusual Form; Unusual Harmonic Stability

1st Movement: A Joyous Disturbance of the Peace

2nd Movement: A Scherzo of Extreme Economy and Drama

2nd and 3rd Movements: A Magical ?attacca? Transition

3rd Movement: Less a Movement than a Setting of the Stage

4th Movement: The Rondo the Sonata Has Been Heading Towards

4th Movement: Further Blurring the Lines Between the Movements

Final Quiz ? Op. 27, No. 1 Quiz

Op. 31, No. 1

Humor and Harmonic Innovation

1st Movement: Playing Poor Coordination for Laughs

1st Movement: A Radical Move to the Mediant

1st Movement: Obsessing Over his own Joke?

1st Movement: ?And Milking it for All It?s Worth

2nd Movement: An Affectionate Wink at Italian Opera

2nd Movement: Embellishment as Parody

2nd Movement: From Parody to Profundity

3rd Movement: Rondo as Riddle

3rd Movement: Inspiring Schubert

3rd Movement: A Coda filled with Surprise

Final Quiz ? Op. 31, No. 1 Quiz

Op. 106: Hammerklavier (Part 1)

A Work of Astonishing, Unprecedented Scope

Putting the ?Hammer? in ?Hammerklavier?

A Massive Work Unified by Two Motivic Fixations

1st Movement: An Exposition that Establishes the Work?s Scope and its Principal Concerns

1st Movement: A Fugal Development and a Return that Breaks Every Rule

1st Movement: The Work?s B/B flat Conflict, Front and Center

1st Movement: A Titanic Coda for a Titanic Movement

2nd Movement: A Compact, At Times Riotous Scherzo

2nd Movement: The Thirds Fixation, at its Most Concise

2nd Movement: A Trio that Moves from Mysterious to Maniacal?

2nd Movement: ?and a Coda that is Yet More Maniacal

Final Quiz ? Op. 106 Part 1 Quiz

Op. 106: Hammerklavier (Part 2)

3rd Movement: Tragedy on an Unequaled Scale

3rd Movement: Setting the Scene with One Measure ? and One Third

3rd Movement: Giving the Work?s Main Ideas a Tragic Affect

3rd Movement: Moments of Consolation amidst Despair

3rd Movement: A Short, Loaded Development; A Return that Embellishes and Further Intensifies the Opening

3rd Movement: Not Hope, but the End of Hope

4th Movement: A Half-Step as a Way Forward

4th Movement: Finding the Way to Order by way of Chaos

4th Movement: A Labyrinthine Subject for a Dizzyingly Complex Fugue

4th Movement: Turning the Subject Stubborn through Augmentation

4th Movement: More Madness; Another Prominent Half-Step; The Subject in Retrograde

4th Movement: A Brief Oasis of Calm

4th Movement: Craggy, Ambiguous and Defiant to the End

Final Quiz ? Op. 106 Part 2 Quiz

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