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Welcome to Part 3 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas!
Outline
- welcome to class
- Welcome!
- Syllabus
- Getting to Know You
- Op. 10 No. 1
- Opus 10 number 1: The "c minor Mood"
- Opus 10 number 1: Extremes of Tempo and Character
- 1st Movement: Pulse as a Source of Character
- 1st Movement: High Drama within the Conventions of the Time
- 1st Movement: A Development with New Material
- 1st Movement: Hammer Blows in c minor
- 2nd Movement: An Adagio Oasis
- 2nd Movement: A Coda that Expands the Movement’s Scope
- 3rd Movement: Prestissimo!
- 3rd Movement: Short-Short-Short-LONG
- 3rd Movement: Beginning with Defiance; Ending with Mystery
- Final Quiz – Op. 10, No. 1
- Op. 22
- Op 22: The Sonata that Washed Itself
- 1st Movement: Wit and Athleticism
- 1st Movement: Playing by the Rules
- 2nd Movement: An Aria on the Piano
- 2nd Movement: Effortless Mastery
- 3rd Movement: A Rhythmic Link to the Rest of the Work
- 4th Movement: A Grazioso Goodbye to the Earliest Period
- Final Quiz – Op. 22
- op. 31 no. 2
- Op. 31 no. 2: An Adventurous, Unsettling Masterwork
- 1st Movement: A Recitative hat is not a Recitative; An Introduction that is not an Introduction
- 1st Movement: A Confrontation of Opposites
- 1st Movement: The Structural Lines Grow Blurrier
- 1st Movement: And Finally, the Recitative!
- 2nd Movement: Harmonic and Emotional Stability at Las
- 2nd Movement: Evoking Voices and Instruments
- 2nd Movement: Exploring the Piano’s Extreme Registers
- 3rd Movement: A Slow-Moving Perpetual Motion
- 3rd Movement: Anxiety and Ambuguity
- Final Quiz – Op. 31, No. 2
- opp. 78, 79 and 81a
- Op. 78, 1st Movement: After a Long Pause, A Sonata Beethoven Loved
- Op. 78, 1st and 2nd Movements: Warmth and Humor
- Op. 79, 1st Movement: Beethoven, Modest and Unbuttoned
- Op. 79, 1st Movement: Phrase Lengths as a Source of Humor
- Op. 79, 2nd and 3rd Movements: Sonata Movements as Character Pieces
- Op. 81a: The Birth of Program Music for the Piano
- Op. 81a, 1st Movement: Le-Be-Wohl
- Op. 81a, 1st Movement: Extreme Economy of Gesture…
- Op. 81a, 1st Movement: …And a Return to Expansiveness
- Op. 81a, 2nd Movement: Conveying Absence through Harmonic Uncertainty
- Op. 81a, 3rd Movement: After Melancholy, Euphoriac
- Final Quiz – Op. 78, 79, 81a
- Listening to the Sonatas
- Listening
- Your Thoughts Welcome
- Stay in touch with the Curtis Institute
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