Transcript Beethoven 1x

BEETHOVEN 1
On the Classical-Romantic border…
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• To revise the background and instrumentation of the Septet
• To analyse the introduction in detail
BACKGROUND
• 1770-1827
• Septet: 1799
• 6 movements (like a Mozart
Serenade e.g. Eine kleine
Nachtmusik)
• Chamber music
INSTRUMENTATION
• Septet (rare; no standard set)
• Clarinet in Bb
• Bassoon
• Horn in Eb (what is it
usually in?)
• Violin
• Viola
• Cello
• Double Bass (why is this
unusual?)
• Bass-heavy
• Clarinet as important as
violin, shares melody
• Comment on relationship
between Vc & Db
• How many distinct notes are
played by the horn? Why
might this be relevant?
MATCH UP
find example bar numbers
• Clarinet
• Bassoon
• Horn
• Violin
• Viola
• Cello
• Double Bass
• Main melody
• Harmonic backup
• Bass part
• Arpeggio accompaniment
INSTRUMENTATION 3
• Effects worth knowing about:
• Double/triple/quadruple stopping (find examples of each)
• Use of extremely high violin range (above
example
) rare – but find an
• NO use of pizzicato
• Articulation and dynamics – detailed (typical of LvB, atypical of
earlier Classical)
INTRODUCTION
• Adagio
• Not repeated
• Ideas introduced (when do we see them again?)
• MELODY
• Long chords (1, 3)
• Acciaccaturas (2)
• Rising arpeggio (3)
• Falling scale (3)
• TEXTURE: Antiphony, Homophony, Monophony
INTRODUCTION 2
• HARMONY
• Analyse chords 1-8 (BEWARE transposing instruments, )
• Chord bar 17-18
• 8-10, 10-12 difference?
• TEXTURE
• Dramatic contrasts (very Beethoven)
• Describe how the texture varies in 3 sentences
• RHYTHM
• Demisemiquavers bar 12 – briefly against triplet bar 14
• Bar 17 very clarinetty
STRUCTURE CHECKUP
• Make sure you have these
marked in
• DEVELOPMENT bar 112
• RECAPITULATION bar 154
• INTRODUCTION bar 1
• 1st Subject 154
• EXPOSITION bar 19
• Transition 182
• 1st Subject 19
• 2nd Subject 188
• Transition 40
• CODA bar 233
• 2nd Subject 53
• Codetta 99
Extension
Look through the development section and
find the perfect cadences. Make a list of bar
numbers and keys
PLENARY
• The septet is a string quartet
plus 3 wind instruments
• The first chord is a funky
Eb6/9
• The movement is a typical
example of Classical music
• Eb major is chosen because
it is an easy key for the
strings