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Tag: Violin Sonata no. 26 in B-flat major / K 378 – Mozart
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here’s a violin sonata from Beethoven,
nicknamed “Spring“, it is ebullient
Beethoven is more forthright than
Mozart, he’s passionate, wears his
heart on his sleeve, is tender, then
rambunctious, you’ll hear it in the
extremes of volume, loud, soft,
often with spontaneous outbursts,
it’s like talking to a friend, the
appeal is emotional, personal,
where Mozart was earlier decorative,
it’s the Romantic Era taking over
from the Classical
you’ll notice also that Beethoven is
chipping away at the conventions,
there are four movements here
instead of just three, he’s saying
that his stuff is not just decorative
but important, Beethoven has
something to say, he’s got a story
to tell, there’s even a narrative feel
to his composition, like there’s a
conclusion to his story, a point
we’ve moved from a variety of
artefacts, disparate pieces, to a
cohesive and meaningful entity
the sonata is a trinity, three
essences in one
R ! chard
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it must be pointed out that sonatas could be
written for other instruments than keyboard,
but since any other instrument could play
just one note at a time, it became the custom
to make a keyboard instrument, which is to
say, essentially, the piano, its accompaniment
therefore, you’ll find that sonatas can be
comprised of more than just one instrument,
more about which later
don’t be confused, the history of music
is one of contradictions, as it is with, for
that matter, any representation of reality
including, incidentally, religion, art’s
historical ancestor, before the modern
world took over, before the advent of
democracy, the French and American
Revolutions, before our secular
21st Century, when artists took over
from preachers, where we started
getting our gospel from literature,
rather, movies, television, concerts,
instead of the Bible, for better or
for worse
here’s, meanwhile, Mozart’s Violin Sonata
telling it like it was, back then, starting
the process
R ! chard
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