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Beethoven: Key Distance Creates Tension

Beethoven used modulation, the moving from one key to another, as another way to portray emotion. He would start in the home key and then modulate away from it. The farther he traveled from the home key, the greater the tension and the more the desire to return.

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Beethoven: Major and Minor

Whether the key is major or minor greatly influences the way a key sounds. Explore the difference in mood between major and minor keys used in Beethoven’s 'Eroica'.

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Beethoven: Tuning and Keys

In Beethoven’s time, instruments were tuned differntly from the way they are tuned today. This gave each key a unique sound that led to its association with a particular character. With an introduction by Dr. Bill Meredith of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San José State.

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Beethoven: Keys Have Character

Beethoven had strong feelings about the meaning of each individual key signature. Explore how the character and relationship of keys used in Beethoven’s music changed the sound and meaning of the music.

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Beethoven: A Revolutionary Use of Key

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Beethoven: What’s in a Theme?

In Symphony No. 3, first movement, Beethoven builds the first theme from three basic motives. See how these motives construct the theme, and then how Beethoven expands and augments the theme throughout the movement.

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October 2006

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