Beethoven

Beethoven

This short essay will focus on comparing the character or ethos of the pieces using the terminology of pitch, rhythm, loudness and timbre. The first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 8, titled "Pathétique", and the aria "You ladies who know" from Mozart's opera, The Marriage of Figaro, an example of Classical comic opera.

Beethoven questioned as any composer of his time, the structure and function of the opening. Useless, no doubt, here again a detailed history of this form, but it can be said that Gluck was the first tried to establish a relationship between the opening and the contents of ...