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On Beethoven's Openings
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Jeremy Siepmann
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01:26 |
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Opening phrase of the 'Pastoral': ood, Symbolism and Musical Function
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Jeremy Siepmann
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01:44 |
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Musical Acorns: the outline of melody; the shape of a question
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:42 |
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The 'question' in the 'Pastoral' repeated...
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:04 |
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...and answered
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:12 |
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The opening phrase ends on a note full of pregnant expectation
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:19 |
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Starting with a stop
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:36 |
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The rhythmic profile of the opening phrase; a two-part construction
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:52 |
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Phrase One, Part One
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:09 |
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Phrase One, Part Two
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:06 |
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The properties of rhythmic ambiguity; the 'question' of Phrase One answered
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Jeremy Siepmann
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01:03 |
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Phrase Two: from meander to march
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:27 |
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The makings of a conversation: contrast and variation
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:47 |
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Repetition as A Major factor, but it's never mere repetition; each time something new is added
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:33 |
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From soft to loud and back again; instrumental enrichment from horns and double-basses
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:18 |
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Mega-repetition: violins play exactly the same little fragment ten times in a row
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:29 |
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But no two repetitions are quite the same; varieties of contrast
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:34 |
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More variation: pitch rises; violins joined frist by the clarinet, then by the oboe
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:19 |
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Return to opening idea, but with new instrumentation and articulation
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:25 |
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Clarinets, horns, bassoons and flutes now join expansive variation
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:49 |
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'New' insistent rhythm derived from the first four notes of the piece
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:09 |
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With the dawn chorus, a whole forest is waking up; feelings of rapture
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:36 |
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First violins play a derivative of the opening figure, joined by wind and strings
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:32 |
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Sudden change of key, from the home key (tonic) to the dominant
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:30 |
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Arrival at the hightly contrasting second main theme
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:55 |
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Unusual properties of second main theme
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Jeremy Siepmann
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02:15 |
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Rhythmic clash between simultaneous groups of three beats and groups of two
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Jeremy Siepmann
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01:09 |
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winds fall selent as the violins and violas interrupt with a new theme
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:30 |
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Winds answer with the same morse-like rhythm but at half the speed
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Jeremy Siepmann
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00:51 |
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Crescendo leads to strings' acceleration of the pace with no increase in tempo
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Jeremy Siepmann
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01:05 |