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Welcome to Class

Welcome to Part 6 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas!

Syllabus

Getting to Know You

Opp. 14 and 49

"The Sonatas Op. 49 and 14: The Exceptions that Prove the Rule of Beethoven's Ambition"

Op. 49 No. 2, 1st movement

Op. 49 No. 2, 2nd movement

Op. 49 No. 1, 1st movement

Op. 49 No. 1, 2nd movement

Op. 14 No. 1, 1st movement

Op. 14 No. 1, 2nd movement

Op. 14 No. 1, 3rd movement

Op. 14 No. 2, 1st movement

Op. 14 No. 2, 2nd movement

Op. 14 No. 2, 3rd movement

Final Quiz - Opp. 14 and 49 - Quiz

Op. 31 No. 3

The Most Subtle Work in its Opus

1st mvt: An Opening that is Ambiguous, Wistful, and Mercurial

1st mvt: A Constant Dialogue between Seriousness and Play

1st mvt: A Return ? and an Entire Movement ? with an Emotional Question Mark

2nd mvt: A Modified Scherzo from the World of Opera

2nd mvt: Comedy and a bit of Melodrama

3nd mvt: A Menuet Playing the Role of a Slow Movement

4th mvt: A Joyous Depiction of a Hunt

4th mvt: Drama and Comedy, Butting Heads

4th mvt: A Coda That Revisits Many of the Work?s Concerns

Final Quiz - Op. 31 No. 3 - Quiz

Op. 54

The Odd Cousin in a Family of 32

In the Middle of the Heroic Middle Period, a Work of High Quirkiness

A Sonata of Two Movements ? One More Irregular than the Other

1st mvt: A Menuet that is a bit Foursquare?

1st mvt: ?and a Trio that Goes Hog-wild?

1st mvt: ?and Finally, a Coda that Gives the Movement Emotional Heft

2nd mvt: A Slow-moving Perpetual Motion

2nd mvt: Rock-steady Motion; Peculiar Harmonic and Rhythmic Detail

2nd mvt: A Second Repeat Highlighting this Work?s Sly Strangeness

2nd mvt: The Movement?s Potential Energy, Thrillingly Unleashed

Final Quiz - Op. 54 - Quiz

Op. 111

Beethoven?s Farewell to the Piano Sonata, in Two Movements Without Real Precedent

1st mvt: Beginning in Mid-sentence, and in Extreme Emotional Distress

1st mvt: A Stark, Unison Theme That Dominates the Movement

1st mvt: Music of Extreme, Nearly Uninterrupted, Rigor and Fury

1st mvt: A Development even more Compact and Airless than the Exposition

1st mvt: A Major Key Ending that Brings No Hope

2nd mvt: A Wondrous, Wide-Eyed Answer to the 1st Movement?s Rage

2nd mvt: Three Variations, Moving the Theme Towards Ecstasy?

2nd mvt: ?and a Fourth, Making it Otherworldly

2nd mvt: Beyond C Major; Beyond Variation; Beyond the Possible

2nd mvt: The Absence of a Continuation

2nd mvt: Beethoven, and Life?s Most Profound and Universal Experience

Final Quiz - Op. 11 - Quiz

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