Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90: II. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen, in E major

Ludwig van Beethoven (1,770–1,827)

Key: E major
Style: Classical
Level: Diploma
Roughly: RCM ARCT · ABRSM ARSM · Trinity ATCL · Henle 7
Lesson: D.9 Give each rondo return a purpose
Musicianship: D.9 Neapolitan returns
Focus: Large-scale sonata form, thematic transformation, differentiated articulation, voicing, memory and stage pacing.

What its lesson teaches

D.9 Give each rondo return a purpose

Prepare Beethoven Op. 90, second movement only, in E major. Compare the returning singing idea with the intervening passages: note the harmonic approach and changed setting at each return. Rehearse from those landmarks without a run-up and keep the melody connected over the accompaniment. The lesson is the complete second movement; the first movement is not part of it.

Ideas: Rondo
Character and expression terms
Memorising from structure
Theory cards: Rondo
The long-range line
Technique: E major scale, hands together, 4 octaves
E major arpeggio, hands together, 4 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Breitkopf & Härtel complete-works edition, 1862–1865; Mutopia public-domain transcription

Encoding source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=909 · public domain

Piano Sonata No.27, Op.90: II. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen

Edition: Breitkopf & Härtel complete-works edition, 1862–1865; Mutopia public-domain transcription

Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=909

Public-domain source edition(s).

Typeset by Stelios Samelis.

Breitkopf & Härtel complete-works edition, 1862–1865; Mutopia public-domain transcription

Encoding source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=909

Adapted by Musalea: converted to MusicXML and prepared for interactive practice.

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Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2 — complete, Ludwig van Beethoven
Étude in B-flat minor, Op. 8 No. 11, Alexander Scriabin
Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp minor, BWV 859 — complete pair, Johann Sebastian Bach
Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78 — complete, Ludwig van Beethoven
Berceuse in D-flat major, Op. 57, Frédéric Chopin
Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor, BWV 867 — complete pair, Johann Sebastian Bach
Impromptu in F minor, D. 935 No. 4 (Op. 142 No. 4) — complete, Franz Schubert
Mallorca (Barcarola), Op. 202, Isaac Albéniz
Sonatine, M.40 — I. Modéré, Maurice Ravel
Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2, Johannes Brahms
Étude in G major, Op. 40 No. 1, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37: I. Allegro con brio, Ludwig van Beethoven

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