Sonata

When I received this assignment I automatically knew that I would choose between Ludwig Van Beethoven or Johann Sebastian Bch. Both very great composer with very great works of music, but my composer of choice is going to be Ludwig Van Beethoven. Beethoven’s piece of music composed that I choose as well is The Symphony No. 5 in C Minor. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in Bonn, the Capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire. Still to this day there is uncertainty of the…

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere,” is a quote from Frank A. Clark that Ludwig van Beethoven can most likely agree to. Throughout his life, Beethoven wasn’t dealt the easiest hand and he was able to overcome this in order to become the success he is known as today. In turn, some may claim that Beethoven would have made it “farther” in life if it wasn’t for these “distractions”; however, without these “distractions, or obstacles, Beethoven wouldn’t have…

“Players should understand what they play;” that’s the starting statement of Donald Francis Tovey’s Companion to Beethoven’s Pianoforte Sonatas. Joel Lester, based on Tovey’s opinion, discusses the relationship between analysis and performance stating that “as analysts use scores as avenues to the pieces they analyze, […] they can –and should, I would argue– refer to performances in order to get at the essence of the pieces they analyze.” He also believes that musical scores function as “a map…

was typical in symphonies, to show the different stages of his journey of love and loss. Belioz uses a large orchestra to produce these new sounds to emphasize the passions and emotions. The first movement called the “Reveries (Passions)”. It is in sonata form and it is slow because it is the start of the journey where the musician, Berlioz, sees the beautiful…

Nature is more than the phenomena of the physical world; nature is emotion. Nature eradicates all negativity and friction in life and exposes the tranquility. The intricacy nature provides is unequivocally astonishing; moreover, nature is like space as a result of its incredible complexity. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a wise, transcendental man, shares the same perspective as I toward nature; there is nothing in this vast, sophisticated world that has the ability to come to the equivalency of serenity…

I could only watch as my parents sent my friends away. I was to practice the piano, not waste my time watching the hummingbirds go by. I was supposed to be a model student, and digging mud holes was apparently unnecessary in achieving that goal. I was, unlike my friends, going to be someone happy. Except I wasn't. By keeping me captive, my parents deprived me of a typical childhood, one that could have been filled with the company and laughter of others. My friends no longer wanted to play with…

torturous practice: crying after repeatedly playing the wrong note, blistered and bandaged finger tips, sleepless nights after sleepless nights, all for this one monumental moment. All for this one chance to show that I have reconditioned Handel’s 5th Sonata into my own creation. All for this one chance to connect with my fellow human beings through the universal language of music. All for this one chance to imprint my lasting legacy alongside the hundreds who have been privileged to play at…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a great and famous Austrian musical prodigy of the seventeenth century who wrote a wide range of symphonies, operas, concertos, and sonatas, and has left behind a legacy for people to embrace. Proposed into a life of music, the virtuoso was born on January twenty-seventh, 1756 in the city of Salzburg, Austria. His father, Leopold Mozart, was a violinist that served as an inspiration for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his musically inclined older sister, Maria Anna…

sounds for the society? Many are gradually acknowledging the underlying implications of harmonies to their percipience, as seen in the ironical case of Ludwig van Beethoven. The composer of some of the most celebrated music history, such as Moonlight Sonata and Fidelio, spends most of his career going deaf. According to Farahani and his colleagues, the auditory system interconnects closely to the neurological system because the vibrations of the hair cells and the eardrum that send to the brain;…

There are sonatas, symphonies, operas, pitch, dynamics, tone color and so on. “Pitch is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound” (Kamien p. 4, 2010). Without pitch, a song would be flat and would not be enjoyable. The dynamics are the degrees of…