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Help with description of Beethoven Sonata No. 14 "moonlight"?

  • I need help describing the Beethoven sonata no. 14 "moonlight" all three movement. If you know anything about movement 1, 2, 3 or all please comment below. I need to describe the music in musical terms using musical terms such as: tone color, melody, pitch, rhythm, intensity, meter, dynamics, texture, its musical chord, mode. What i do know is that it was written in the classical period and I know some basic characteristics but not much else. I have listen to this piece over and over again and I really like it but when describing it correctly in musical terms I don't seem to be doing so well. So, again if you are a music professional, very knowledgeable, music major or anything of the sort please comment about one or all of the movements. The help is most appreciated. Thank you in advance

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    Someone asked a similar question about two years ago: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100423115952AA7ZUro The best book on the Beethoven piano sonatas is Companion to Beethoven's Piano Sonatas by Donald Tovey. The book contains a measure-by-measure analysis of the sonata form of the third movement.

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Check your CD album's booklet for description. Some of those booklets have very good description/program notes of the music.

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