Music GCSE - Pathetique Sonata

What is the solo instrument heard?

Piano

What are the melodic features you can hear hear in the music

Acciaccatura, Broken cord leaps

Mordents

Recurring motive

Scales

Sequence

Drills

Conjunction movement

Disjunct movement

Mordents

What is the time signature after the introduction?

2/2

What rhythmic devices best describes the rhythm of the introduction

Dotted rhythms

Semi quavers

What are the different temples heard in the peace?

Grave

Allegro

How’s the tonality in the beginning of the extract?

Minor

What is the overall texture?

Homophonic

What genre is this piece?

Romantic classical

What are differences between the harpsichord cords and the piano?

Harpsichords have a smaller range than the modern piano

Harpsichords pluck the strings rather than strike them with a hammer

Harps chords cannot play dynamics

Hope chords have a different tone to the piano

Harpsichord cannot sustain notes for long

Harpsichords do not have sustained pedal

What are the different sections of the Sonata form?

Exposition – there are two teams called subject, which are usually contrast in mood and character

Development – the composer develops ideas from the subject

Recapitulation – the composer recap is the first and second subject

What key is the first theme and what are some characteristics?

The first theme is usually in the tonic and his often forceful and rhythmic and character

What key is the second thing in?

A related key usually the dominant

what key is the development section in?

The music passes through other keys, avoiding the tonic key

what key is the recapitulation in?

both subjects are in the tonic key

What features of the first motive?

Six notes long

Conjunct

Descending semitone at the end

Dotted rhythms

Small range

Uses only three different pictures

How was the motif played in the introduction?

It is played in sequence

How is the Melody at the end of the introduction?

Descending

Chromatic scale

Fast

Ends with leap of diminished seven

Legato

How are the dynamics in the introduction?

There are sudden changes

Some gradual changes

How do the dynamics express excitement and drama?

Certain changes in dynamics, create surprise

Extreme ranges, leave the listener and suspense

How is Beethoven’s dynamics represent piano music in the romantic period

The harpsichord was not able to play dynamics, but this piece uses regular dynamic changes

Terrorist dynamics were abandoned

Gradual changes used

Certain changes in dynamics

What is the overall texture of the piece?

Homophonic

How was the texture in the right hand part of the development section?

Octaves

How is the accompaniment in the start of the exposition?

Accompaniment?is played in the left

There are broken objectives

Tonic pedal

Constant quaver movement

Rising ascending scale hand

what is the key in the introduction?

C minor?

What is the key in the first subject?

C minor

What is the key and the second subject?

E flat minor

what are the keys in the development?

G minor E minor D major

What is the key in the first subject of the recapitulation?

C minor

What is the key of the second subject in the recapitulation?

F minor

What harmonic device is used in the left hand in the exposition

Pedal

What key is usually in the second subject?

Usually the second subject would begin in a related key, such as the dominant or relative major

How does harmony and tonality reflect an emotional?

C minor tonality represents suffering

Descendants represent pain

Pedal notes create dissonance

Unexpected keys create unease

Unexpected keys add an ease

What melodic techniques are heard in the exposition?

Mordents And Tremelo