Revisions in Beethoven's Compositional Process and Their Effect on Rhythmic Organization for the Seventh Symphony in A Major, Opus 92, Presto, and the Ninth Symphony in D Minor, Opus 125, Molto Vivace

Revisions in Beethoven's Compositional Process and Their Effect on Rhythmic Organization for the Seventh Symphony in A Major, Opus 92, Presto, and the Ninth Symphony in D Minor, Opus 125, Molto Vivace PDF Author: Edward J. Kaczuk
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Category : Musical meter and rhythm
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This study examines previously undocumented corrections, revisions and transformations of detail that are found in the autographs of the Scherzi of Beethoven's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies, thereby deducing a sequence for compositional process. Aside from the corrections that Beethoven made of mistakes in the writing of the score, the vast majority of corrections found affect the large-scale rhythmic structures of these two movements. Rhythmic analyses of the final version are informed by the details of the compositional process as well as knowledge of the prevailing rhythmic theory of the time.