beethoven - piano sonata

• sonata form, consisting of exposition, development, and recapitulation
• mostly melody dominated homophony, apart from the first 5 bars, which are homophonic
• made up of 8 bar phrases
• composed at the end of the classical era, and start of romantic era so it consists of features from both
• frequent use of articulation in the melody
• diminished 7th chords used in beginning section
• hands move apart in contrary motion from bars 93-110
• at bar 187 there is a 8 bar long, 64 note descending scale in a sudden dramatic monophonic texture
• frequent use of ornamentation such as mordents and trills
• ends on a perfect cadence
• syncopation in the exposition (bars 13 and 19)
• time signiture = 4/4
• circle of fifths (244-252)
• chromatic broken chords (172-174)
• 1st subject = C minor

  2nd subject = E minor