Patterns of Dynamic Organization in Beethoven's Eroica Symphony

Abstract

' Publications and articles devoted exclusively to this subject are (in chronological order): Frank Choisy, Les sforzandes de Beethoven, Le guide musical LVI (1910), 696; Alfred Heuss, Das Orchester-Crescendo bei Beethoven, Vortrag Basler Kongress, 1924, in Zeitschrift fiir Musikwissenschaft IX (1927), 361-65; Nikolai Graudan, Das Sforzato bei Beethoven, Beethoven-Jahrbulch, (g. 1965/68), 225-42; Hanns-Bertold Dietz, Relations between Rhythm and in of Beethoven, in Bericht iiber der Internazionalen Musikwissenchaft Kongress, (Bonn, 1970), edited by C. Dahlhaus, H.J. Marx et al. (Kassel, 1971); Robert Gust Luoma, Variant Dynamic Markings in Music; Some Examples from Mozart and Beethoven, Music Review XXXIV (1973), 189-97; Vera Schwarz, Funktion und Interpretation der Pausen bei Beethoven, Beethoven-Kolloquium 1977, Beitrdge der Osterreichische Gesellschaft fiir Musik, 1976-78 (Kassel, 1978), 117-32. Special discussion of Beethoven's dynamics is included in: Paul Mies, Textkritische Untersuchungen bei (Bonn, 1957), pp. 96-142; William S. Newman, Performance Practices in Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: An Introduction (New York, 1971), Ch. XII, pp. 82-86; Kenneth Drake, Sonatas of as He Played and Taught Them, edited by Frank S. Stillings (Cincinnati, 1972), pp. 77-105; Bathia Churgin and Joachim Braun, A Report Concerning the Authentic Performance of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, Op. 60 (Ramat-Gan, 1977), pp. 84-89. Sandra P. Rosenblum, Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Bloomington, 1988), Ch. 3, Dynamics and Accentuation. present writer has recently completed her dissertation: The Role of in Beethoven's Instrumental Works (Ph.D. dissertation, Bar-Ilan University, 1989). A synopsis of the contents of the dissertation was published in the Newsletter, Vol. 2 (1988), 19. This article is a revision of the paper presented at the Conference Recent Research on Beethoven held at Bar-Ilan University in December, 1987. I wish to thank Prof. Bathia Churgin for her guidance in the preparation of this article.