September 2010
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376 pages
12h 7m
English
Arnold Schoenberg, the famous 20th-century composer, noticed that Beethoven often used motives in a particular way. He would compose a one-measure motive, then transpose that motive up or down by an interval for the second measure, followed by two additional measures of a new or related musical idea. Schoenberg called this inner form a Satz (or sentence).
But Beethoven is not the only composer who used this inner form. The opening theme to Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major is in a sentence form, with the opening measure, a, shifted down by a second, a´, ...
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