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The speed of music; e.g. 120 BPM (beats per minute) (Tempo) rubato: robbed: Free flowing and exempt from steady rhythm Tenuto: sustained: Holding or sustaining a single note Vivace: vivacious: Fast and lively tempo (quicker than allegro)
Allegro vivace A typical performance takes about 8-9 minutes. The common practice of leaving out long repeated sections, such as the development and recapitulation in the first movement, would make two or three minutes' difference to the total duration.
A musician who plays any instrument with a keyboard. In Classical music, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, pipe organ, harpsichord, and so on. In a jazz or popular music context, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, electric piano, synthesizer, Hammond organ, and so on. Klangfarbenmelodie (Ger.)
Vivace It is one of Beethoven's shortest sonatas with an approximate performance time of only nine minutes, if Beethoven's prescribed repeats are all observed. It is also the shortest of his sonatas with three movements.
The composer also employs comic elements, such as a "tipsy" middle section in the second dance, in which the ensemble abruptly slows from a lively vivace to meno mosso (quarter note = 112), whereupon a single bassoon plays a plodding solo marked by upward and downward slides, or glissandi, as well as staggering, syncopated rhythms.
The sonata has three movements: . Allegro assai; Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso – in E-flat major; Allegro vivace; This sonata is characteristic of early/middle Beethoven in its solid sonata structure, just beginning to get adventurous in syncopation, with some extraordinary off beat sforzandi.
The Mazurkas, Op. 7 are a set of five mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin.The mazurkas were mostly written in 1830–1831 and were published in 1832. This is the only set of Chopin's mazurkas that contains 5 pieces; all the composer's other published sets consist of either 3 or 4 mazurkas each.
In the opening movement, the initial theme of the Allegro vivace is based on the corresponding first theme of Ludwig van Beethoven's overture to The Creatures of Prometheus. [2] The second movement is a theme with five variations in E ♭ major, Schubert's only set of symphonic variations. Although there is some variation in the melody, the ...