Pathétique, Piano Sonata No. 8 In C Minor (Ludwig Van Beethoven) Flashcards Preview

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1
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Era

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Classical-Romantic

Showed adventurous harmony and extended structures

2
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Romantic era features

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Powerful emotions - Pathétique is suffering

Minor keys, dramatic chords, accented notes, strong melodies, romantic harmony, diminished sevenths

3
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Piano

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Was undergoing development - larger range

4
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Fundamental ideas

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Repetition ( repeats intro) and contrast (subjects in devlopment)

5
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Structure

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Developed sonata form - intro (unusually slow) - exposition - intro - development - recapitulation - intro - coda

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Key

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C minor

7
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Time signature

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4/4 - 2/2 - 4/4

8
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Intro

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Homophonic, right hand (florid melody), left hand (chord accompaniment), heavy, dramatic chords (diminished 7th - chromatic + unstable - romantic)
Grave - unusually slow
Extreme dynamic contrast - romantic
Diatonic - functional harmony

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Exposition - first subject

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Fast tempo, 2/2
(C minor)
scalic, ascending,
murky bass, diatonic (PC),
chromatic bassline (classical to romantic),
Bflat pedal (dominant of Eflat minor - preparation)

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Exposition - second subject

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Eflat minor - weird since normally relative major
hand crossing, acciacatura, mordent
New theme 1 - Eflat major, contrary motion (right goes up/left goes down), continuous quavers, Alberti bass
New theme 2 - scalic descending melody, stepwise, high tessitura
Repeat - classical - 2nd dominant to dominant will then go to tonic (Cminor)

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2nd intro

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Same as 1st
Unrelated G minor
Eflat written as Dsharp - enharmonic equivalent

12
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Development

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Unrelated E minor
develops 1st + 2nd subject (distant keys)
Rhythmically augmented version of intro
Modulates to G minor - dominant pedal in C minor - dominant preparation to C minor

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Recapitulation

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1st subject (C minor) - tonic pedal, perfect cadence, functional 
2nd subject (F minor - subdominant) - hand crossing, high tessitura, scalic + descending, four bars from intro - same
Coda - based on 1st subject