A Brief History of Classical Music: A Tale of Time, Tonality and Timbre by Arthur Wenk

Author:Arthur Wenk [Wenk, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-05T20:00:00+00:00

Beethoven’s assaults on rhythm constitute the most immediately striking aspect of his musical style. Many of the first-movement themes feature off-beat accents, or entrances off the beat, as in the case of the first transition theme.

Beethoven delights in constructing contrametrical patterns, such as a pattern of two beats in a meter of three beats.

Beethoven further upsets the rhythm by suppressing the main beat, either by ties, as in the preceding passage, which concludes with another contrametrical pattern, or by rests, which replace the downbeat with actual silence.

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