Music - MYP 4 and 5 - Samuel Wright - Hodder 2020

QUESTIONS
CREATIVE
Listen o the opening of Beethoven’s 9th symphony
t
1
every time you hear the falling 5th-4th-5th
for
motif.
interval
2 over the list and, thinking along the lines of
development, ask yourself questions such
motivic
What would it be like if…? Suppose that…?
as:
would it look differently if…?
How
these questions. Get into groups and
Explore
3
different versions of your ideas on pianos,
play
tablets or other devices.
keyboards,
4 : What new ideas do you have about
use of these intervals that you did not
Beethoven’s
before?
have
How is change
reflected within
artistic expression?
and
a list of descriptions in your portfolio
create
Look
Reflect
Figure 11.18
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The ‘Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125’ was first
MESSAGES
BEETHOVEN’S
composer and pianist, Beethoven is an iconic figure
German
performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824, and it has come to
represent a pivotal moment in musical history. The opening
in the changes that swept Europe in the late 18th Century.
first movement ‘Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso’
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was no stranger to
has powerful connections to both the Mannheim school
change in his lifetime; from losing his hearing to his severe
and Haydn’s ‘London Symphony No. 104’. The opening
disappointment as Napoleon declared himself Emperor
brings in the descending perfect 5th to perfect 4th intervals
in 1804:
we heard in Figure 11.9, however Beethoven expands on
“Now he, too, will tread underfoot all the rights of
this using rhythmic diminution and then thunders into
man [to] indulge only his ambition; now he will think
full orchestral octave blows that build on the previously
himself superior to all men [and] become a tyrant!”
mentioned Mannheim techniques.
Figure 11.19 Opening of Beethoven’s 9th symphony
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