Beethoven's Sixth Symphony

The unique tone painting reflects the meaning, symbolism, and characteristics of the movement, shaping and characterizing the harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic elements. The time signature and key signature of the second movement draw attention to both the lively and calming outdoors. Beethoven expressed the sounds of nature through the instruments in the movement, setting the scene in the countryside. The perception of nature is fulfilled stylistically with instruments imitating flowing water by repeated notes. The instruments also imitate bird song by playing trills, grace notes, embellishments, ornamentation, and bird indications.

During the nineteenth century, the musical canon emerged as a list of works permanently established as being of the highest quality. While music was commonly only heard once or twice, canons were significant enough to be heard over and over again. In Lecture 5, Beethoven's "Heroic" 3rd Symphony was shown to be critiqued as being too heavy and long, unendurable, and not entertaining. In "Museum Pieces," J. Peter Burkholder indicates that the only works appropriate to be performed were museum pieces, or musical works with lasting value, because of their distinctive musical personality, familiarity, and preservation of works of revered dead composers (Burkholder).

The fourth piece had not only used instruments, but it also used a magnificent chorale. The fourth piece seemed to have four separate movements in itself as the fourth movement first starts in a low tone and tempo. Then suddenly the music changes into an adante tempo, and then at last the music becomes allegro, as well as fortissimo as the music is not only loud, but its tempo is rapid. Also at the end of the fourth movement when the choir is singing, and the musicians are performing as well, the music becomes extremely rapid and fast compared to the rest of the

Beethoven contributed one of the most significant musical developments through his fifth and ninth symphonies. He used a musical motive as the basic of his entire piece. (Beethoven described the motive as “Fate knocks at the door”.) It was the first time in history that anyone had done such a thing for a multi-movement piece. Beethoven’s contribution has become a norm in the music world, even to this day.

The symphony is in four very powerful and entertaining movements. The first movement begins in the pianissimo tone with the strings section, but quickly enters the fortissimo tone with the introduction of the woodwind, brass and percussion sections. The dynamics of the musical melody varies throughout the movement moving from crescendo to decrescendo modes. The first movement reminds you of a raging storm from soft blowing winds to thunder and lighting. The audience is mesmerized by this first movement of the sonata.

The finally movement and my favorite of the four movements, Beethoven lets the cellos and basses 'talk' in a gruff recitative that passes judgment on the themes of the first three movements. The recitative then halts and slowly, out of this darkness, the 'joy' theme is heard. As the theme commences, the other instruments of the orchestra become involved and the theme is evolved into its ideal instrumental form. But what does

The first movement begins with the lower strings playing rather softly, with the French horn and the winds coming in behind them. The minor tone of the piece, and the gradual increase in the dynamic, helps build tension. The movement has many tempo changes as it presents two different themes during it. The themes themselves can be very loud, especially with the full orchestra playing,

I read that the 9th Symphony is universally considered to be among Beethoven’s greatest works he’s ever written. The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony. The words are sung during the final movement by four vocal soloists and a chorus. They were taken from the "Ode to Joy", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803. Today it still stands as one of the most performed symphonies throughout the world. It is made of 4 movements. The first movement is in classical sonata form, however, just the beginning of the 9th Symphony jumps immediately into suspense and sense of expectancy. In the first minute, the tempo hovers between a duple and triple meter. A and E notes are used as building

The third movement lead straight into the fourth, and that lead into the fifth movement without missing a beat. The fifth and last movement of this symphony is in sonata rondo form, which is a blend of the two. A rondo is when the first theme, A, repeats several times with other music (B, C). This form then also shares characteristics of the sonata, so it has a development section as well that is common in sonata

Haydn's Symphony no. 94 has an almost symmetrical melody to it. The opening phrase is repeated throughout the piece with variations. It is also tuneful, the main tune is one that is not easy to forget. It is clearly not as simple as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, but it is quite memorable. The Viennese School of Music was, in a way, introduced by Haydn. It marks the beginning of the Classical Era of music. This piece reflects that school of thought by being symmetrical and by using a sequence. These two elements help make the piece sound balanced. The big surprise occurs towards the beginning of the song. When the theme is repeated the second time, it is played softly. This piano dynamic is immediately broken by a loud and abrubt chord. It could

Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky is one of the most famous Russian composers.   He was born in Votkinsk on May 7, 1840 into a middle class family.   His family greatly supported his musical interests. They gave him piano lessons and provided him with the instruction of music theory. Their move to St. Petersburg proved to be a significant milestone is Tchaikovsky’s life. It had set the course for Tchaikovsky's progress and success in the musical world.

As noted by Robert Hughes, "Beethoven was not only the embodiment of all that was before him, but also of that which was yet to come" (Hughes 486). The truth of this may be seen by comparing Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C Minor to Haydn, the father of Symphony, and his 95th in C Minor. While Haydn's symphony is both playful and dramatic, Beethoven's symphony is grander both in terms of scale and vision. He expands the size of the orchestra to incorporate the sounds swirling around, underlying, and depicting the arrival of Fate in a rhythm-driven, thematic symphony that takes Haydn's form and runs with it as though to the top of a mountain peak. This paper will analyze the symphonies by movement, according to form, size, structure, tonalities, melodies, orchestral sound and overall mood and effect.

Beethoven’s symphony No. 5 in c minor, Op. 67, I has four movements allegro con brio, andante con moto, scherzo allegro, and allegro. The first movement is a sonata that contains a motif and fortissimo phases using imitation and sequence with a constant flowing melody. The second movement contains two themes in alternation. The first theme starts later followed by the second which later dies of as a third theme is born followed by fortissimo The third movement contains a scherzo and trio and is in ternary form the theme is immediately stated and continually gets revived. The fourth and final movement starts immediately after the third and is a variation of a sonata. The piece has strong cadence and recapitulates only to finish in an extremely

I choose “Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, "Choral": IV. Ode to Joy” composed Beethoven. I have no specific reason why I picked this song, besides the fact that I admired Beethoven when I was young. When I listened to the piece the first time I was surprised by its dynamics. In my head I have this preconceived idea that classical music was soft. I did a little research on the classical era and discovered; that music was an important part of society at the time and Beethoven was one of the top composers at the time. I was also informed that the all classical music was dynamic, the song could be quiet one minute then loud the next. In the beginning of “Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, "Choral": IV. Ode to Joy” it seemed to drag, and then

Music is constantly changing. The Baroque period (1600-1750) and the Classical period (1750-1820) have both differences and similarities in elements such as form, texture, and dynamics. I will be comparing the first movement of Spring from the Four Seasons composed by Antonio Vivaldi and the first movement of Symphony No. 5 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven. I will construct a stylistic comparison of the two compositions and their musical stylings with regard to the periods of music of which they belong.