Key words
1) Instrumentation and Sonority
2) Structure
3) Tonality
4) Harmony
5) Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
At the top of your
6) Melody Beethoven Score write
each on in each of your 7
7) Texture colours
LOs: To develop my knowledge and understanding of music history; to identify
characteristics aurally; to expand my knowledge and use of subject-specific vocabulary.
• 1770 – 1827
• Intense family pressure to become a prodigy (child star),
particularly from his father. Removed from school aged 11
• German, later moved to Vienna to write his music and
become a composer & performer
• From 1796 (aged 26) started to become profoundly deaf -
composed and performed his music without ever hearing it.
• Known as a Classical – Romantic cross composer, as his
musical style lead the way for the romantic period of music
Background information- Pathétique
Sonata Sonata - Solo
instrument (piano) or
• His eighth published sonata solo instrument
• Dedicated to a French aristocrat accompanied by
piano
• Title Pathetique: French for ‘moving’ or
‘emotional’
one Sound
Task
- Annotate your score with the
examples below
- Challenge: Can you find your
Melody
own examples?
Harmony
chord V7
examples below
- Challenge: Can you find your
own examples?
• The harmony uses the standard chords of the time (i.e.
predominantly chords I, IV and V, with occasional use of II
and VI), including dominant sevenths in various inversions.
• The harmony is functional (mainly uses chord I, IV and V).
• The harmony uses mainly root position and first inversion
chords.
Root (block) 1st Inversion
chord (flipped) chord