Pathetique

Questions: Q2, Q1, Q6, Q2, Q5, Q4

Extracts: Exposition x3, Development x2, Recapitulation x2

Melody - wide range, disjunct / conjunct, leaps, sequences, ornamentation, chromatic, balanced phrasing, ascending / descending, some leaps

Dynamics - pp-ff, crescendo, sudden changes

Tempo - slow sections: grave (very slow), 4/4, fast sections: allegro, 2/2

Rhythm - rests, dotted notes, crotchets, semiquavers, quavers, repeated / repetitive

Tonality - C minor

Texture - chordal, homophony, some monophonic parts, melody and accompaniment

Harmony - chromatic, dissonant, pedal, perfect cadence

RH - dotted, melody, octaves, sequence, suspensions, some chords

LH - accompaniment, chords, repeated chords, semiquavers, octaves

Harmonic device - pedal, circle of fifths

Melodic device - sequence

Context:

• Exposition vs recapitulation - recap has 2nd subject in a different key, it is not repeated, it ends in the tonic key

• Romantic instrumentation - large range, tremolo octaves, parallel octaves, virtuosic, sudden dynamic changes

• Romantic harmony - chromatic, dissonant, inversions, dominant / diminished sevenths

• Romantic texture - accompaniment in LH, melody and accompaniment, pedals, broken octaves