Sonata

personal favorites is Moonlight sonata. Moonlight Sonata was one of Beethoven’s most popular piano compositions. I well explain in this essay how Moonlight sonata reflects Beethoven and how this piece exemplifies the era it was created. Who is Beethoven? Where does one begin, when describing such an influential figure in the history of classical music? I will first start with this, his full name is Ludwig…

In August Strindberg’s play, The Ghost Sonata, I found it to be very unusual, leaving me wondering if any of the characters were real or imaginary. The setting of The Ghost Sonata takes place in a Swedish town where there is a multiple story apartment building as the backdrop. The occupants of the apartment building live according to class, meaning those considered as the upper class live on the top floor, the middle class live on the ground floor, the lower class live below, and the poor are…

Sonata Mulattica: a tale of Musical Prowess, Love, and Loss George Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of a white woman and a flamboyant, self-proclaimed African prince, was born and lived as an outsider. He may have had a quick rise to fame as a child, but later in life, he had an even quicker fall. George’s story was like a message in a bottle lost at sea, until someone found it and turned it into a lyrical narrative capturing the life of a biracial prodigy violinist, who rose to fame, but…

The relationship between both texts the shoe-horn sonata and home and away both share a similar distinctive visual features and the composers both have a purpose they are trying to distinguish. Both texts show how the characters endure war, symbolism is played as a main role in both these texts. It explores events associated with prisoners of war. Throughout the texts they show visual and language techniques. John Misto’s play and home and away both share a relationship when it comes to…

This slower, serious section is different than most sonatas as it is considered an introduction section not typical for most sonatas. Generally, sonata form contains an exposition, development, and a recapitulation section. This piece’s exposition section doesn’t technically start until about a minute into the piece, and the marking is titled Allegro di molto e con Brio, meaning fast and with brilliance in Italian. Sonata structure is mostly very intelligible to listeners because the exposition…

it over the span of several generations. Similarly, in music it can be possible to track its evolution by observing changes to a style, genre, or concept. In this report, the focus will fall on movements from two violin sonatas. For the purposes of this discussion, a violin sonata will be defined as a work specifically written for violin and piano with the purpose of it being a chamber piece. By analyzing the movements, the progress from the Classical to the Romantic eras will become observable…

types, his piano sonatas capture distinct character paired with enunciated form in such a way that is very specific to his style. Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major is one of 18 piano sonatas in total, all of which were written in his adult years. Sonata No. 9 of K. 311 is presumed to have been written in 1777 and contains some quite distinguishable characteristics that categorize this piece in sonata-rondo form. In this essay, I plan to make clear why Sonata No. 9 is a sonata-rondo, as well…

In 1839, Breitkopf & Härtel published Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C major, Op. 17. Schumann conceived the piece in early 1836. The first iteration of Op. 17 was a one movement piece titled Ruines. Ruines was Schumann’s cathartic expression of the fatigue of separation from his love, Clara Wieck. After several alterations of the piece--in the effort to raise funds for a monument to Beethoven--Schumann expanded Ruines to three movements, mulled over a series of titles, and ultimately settled on…

unity and force; and in it comes in the form of an Impressionistic musical piece in a Sonata structure, which consists of an Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation. The story of Amory Blaine reflect a classical structure within the two subtitle books, connected by a short interlude, is organized in generally analogous and parallel…

1. Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major Op. 27 No. 1 Objective Description: The first movement, No. 13 in E-flat major Op. 27 begins with a soft note that goes higher note as steps. The same melody repeats few times, then the sound goes gradually louder the sound, but at the certain point, the sound suddenly goes small like pianissimo. Then three note beats that repeats, then smaller touch of pair starts. Then, the same melody gets faster and faster. This piece ends by the same melody…