I googled Fur Elise:
It is officially a Bagatelle - no. 25 in am.
Fur Elise was not published until 40 years after Beethoven's death.
but here is what i was really interested in finding out:
Nobody really knows for sure who Elise was.
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~perhaps the Heart of Fur Elise - at least for me - is when in the
second section Beethoven goes into CM kind of - and it gives it a
pure sounding clarity that I never tire of
~Fur Elise can get pretty repetitious but I always play all the repeats
because I figure Beethoven wanted it that way - and besides it's pretty
short and he probably wanted to stretch it out some (kind of like when
I use song lyrics to make my posts look longer :) )
~ya gotta love the e-e octaves cause it's not hard but a little impressive -
and it goes nicely into starting the main theme over
~now here's where you can really wow 'em - first you get the fingering
down pat so as not to mess up - and the play the ascending triplet patterns
three times until the chromatic downward scale - i'm telling you people
will think you are good
~after that it's a piece of cake
~I believe the ending is meant to be abrupt - but a little soft - don't cut it off
too quickly but don't hold on to it
NEXT TIME: stidh's interpretation of FE - dynamics and stuff
from Wiki:
ReplyDeleteThe letters that spell Elise can be decoded as the first three notes of the piece. Because an E♭ is called an Es in German and is pronounced as "S", that makes E-(L)-(I)-S-E: E-(L)-(I)-E♭-E, which by enharmonic equivalents sounds the same as E-(L)-(I)-D♯-E. Furthermore, since "Dis" is the pronunciation of D♯, if the first several notes of the composition are sung with note names, it becomes E-Dis-E-Dis-E (...), creating a word that, as a mondegreen, sounds significantly similar to the name "Elise" (the "L" sound and "D" sound are alveolar consonants). The same notion however is also valid for the name "Therese".
I'd guess it wasn't named FOR a woman so much as named AFTER a peculiar musical transcription coincidence...
Just one argument against the "heart" and more for understanding the "mind" of Beethoven. ;)
ReplyDeleteWow - Abso.
ReplyDeleteI always figured you were just into the pinko/commie/socialist stuff.
I never knew you could talk like this.
I'm gonna print out your fur elise comment to study after 'they' are gone.
thanks abso
But you know what Abso - I'm feeling just a little bit guilty that I have pretty much dumped Bach for Beethoven.
ReplyDeleteBut Beethoven has got me wrapped around his little finger - and there is so much more after I am finished with FE.
the possibilities are endless
glenn gould must be thinking:
sue sue don't do this to me