Assignment5 (Peng Jingxin） Struggle and Wandering in the Storm - Appreciation of Beethoven's Sonata "The Tempest"

 Beethoven's Sonata "The Tempest" is a work in his later years. This work is powerful and majestic, as if it is knocking on the door of destiny with musical notes. He used gentle, solemn melodies to describe the swift and violent power of the storm and the feelings of helplessness, grief, and loneliness. The rhythm of the music is full of alternations of fast and slow, presenting before our eyes a scene of tempest from weak to violent, to your personal despair. The tones fluctuated between gentleness and firmness, as if we could see a helpless and desperate cry of a person in the wind and rain. At the end of the song, the storm gradually returned to calm, and our hearts returned to nature with the ups and downs of the music. At this time. The music presents us with a peaceful scene of the sun rising after the storm is over

In the second movement, the music presents us with a beautiful natural scenery, which is used to tell an intoxicating emotional story. Afterwards, the sound of the piano seems to dance. When you close your eyes and listen to it, it seems that you can master it. Cozy and peaceful after the storm. At this moment, the natural environment is beautiful, and people's hearts are peaceful, as if music brought us into the warm embrace of nature, so that our hearts are no longer disturbed.

The whole piece is not procedural music. I think his expression is very free. Although the scenes depicting the storm in the work have a regular crescendo, it also contains the sound of the storm hitting the ground, just like the first part of the work. The three movements are the same. It depicts the scene of rain flowing along the ground after the storm is over. Although the sound of the continuous rain is not as passionate as the "Passion" Sonata, but as Romain Rolland said, this passage is like an unstoppable rapids. The same, flowing in our hearts.

From the author's composition methods, there are many ways to express the storm. Among them, the tuning of the triplets is the most obvious. In the first movement, the author uses a lot of this technique to gradually progress the storm from the beginning: weak, and then to unfold: the rain gradually becomes stronger, and then to the climax: Downpour. Accompanied by the melody of the left hand: thunder that gradually becomes violent. Alternate left and right hands, vividly depicting a violent storm. This creative approach is rarely heard in the works of Mozart and Haydn. And Beethoven's own mood can be fully reflected in this storm, just like this piece of music: the first movement despairs with the storm; the second chapter confronts fate (the storm) in the storm; the third Zhang's mood returns to calm (the storm ends, the sun rises). In general, the storm represents a tragic fate in this work. The difference from Beethoven's "Sorrowful" sonata is that the depiction of the scene "The Tempest" enables us to see the picture through music, thereby generating a resonance in our hearts. This is also the uniqueness of this work's description of the natural environment. Rather than conveying feelings through programmed music. This kind of work has more vitality and vitality, and makes us feel like we are in the scene.