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Beethoven's Late Style in His Last Five Piano Sonatas

Lai, Wei-Ya
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243014360

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2009, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Piano.
This document intends to explore Ludwig van Beethoven's last five piano sonatas (Opp. 101, 106, 109, 110, and 111) focusing on their innovative and experimental elements, and perceived difficulty. Through detailed historical study and theoretical analysis, this paper will discuss the common traits that reach across all five sonatas as well as their correlations with similar characteristics in the composer's other late works. Although each chapter will deal with a singular subject, such as key relationships, sonata form, variation, and fugato technique, other compositional aspects often taken for granted–e.g., lyricism, trills, modal harmony, improvisations, the use of the extreme range of the keyboard, and German markings–will also be considered. The document will conclude with a discussion of how Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas, particularly the last five, influenced the development of nineteenth-century keyboard composition.
Prof. David Berry (Committee Chair)
Prof. James Tocco (Committee Member)
Prof. Jeongwon Joe (Committee Member)
148 p.
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Beethoven; piano sonatas; late style

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  • Lai, W.-Y. (2009). Beethoven's Late Style in His Last Five Piano Sonatas [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243014360

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lai, Wei-Ya. Beethoven's Late Style in His Last Five Piano Sonatas. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243014360.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lai, Wei-Ya. "Beethoven's Late Style in His Last Five Piano Sonatas." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243014360

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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