Reflection On The Video Keeping Score-Beethoven's Eroia

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Zoya Alikhan
Humanities 1101
Professor Clifford
6 November 2017 Reflection on “Keeping Score - Beethoven’s Eroica” Video
In the video, “Keeping Score - Beethoven’s Eroica,” the American conductor and pianist, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, explores the life and music of a German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Thomas demonstrates and explains the four movements of the Eroica symphony by Beethoven. Thomas also gets into the rival challenges of Beethoven; where a man named Daniel Steibelt, challenged Beethoven to a musical duel in Vienna. Beethoven ended his symphony with the fourth movement and a finale of a frenzy virtuosity type of music. This type of music led the the audience know that the symphony was over. …show more content…

Beethoven and Berlioz were well-known composers from the Romantic era. Beethoven was a talented pianist and violinist. He composed many different things including his thirty-two piano sonatas and nine symphonies. One of the famous piece that Beethoven wrote was called the Eroica (The Symphony no. 3). It was a symphony in four movements and one of Beethoven's incredible works. The Eroica symphony was a oratorio that marked the inception of Beethoven’s creative middle-period. According to the video, Thomas states “This is Beethoven’s third symphony when he called Eroica it took Beethoven three years to write this piece” (3:00). Berlioz was a french composer, and conductor in the Romantic period. His first and most famous symphony that he composed was the Symphonie fantastique. The Symphonie fantastique was according to Fiero who …show more content…

As I watched and listened to them playing their instruments, there were low and high sounds. Half of the people would play at a low sound and the other half would play at a high sound. That was sort of relevant to what I saw in this video. However, in the video it was more of orchestra and symphony meaning there were violins and clarinets; but there were half musicians playing at a low sound and the other half playing at a high sound similar to the band

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