9 year after upload and this is one of the most valuable videos I'm come across for helping me appreciate the composition and structure of Fur Elise. Thanks for sharing, and as others have commented, please continue to upload more music analysis!
7 years has passed since you post this wonderful analysis. your presentation is clean and concise. I'm glad found this piece today. I wish you would keep posting and share your knowledges with the world. Thank You!
Thx for the video - however, important aspects were not explained. The 3 themes have very different music style influences. This mix is crazy for today's standards but probably even more back then. Is that the reason why this piece was not published by Beethoven himself? What are the music genres Beethoven is using? A romantic B Germa folk/Wiener Klassik C Baroque with a mix of Bach and Vivaldi ? Wild guess but I would be delighted to hear opinions.
Your analysis and presentation are awesome (I'd need time to find more adequate words to compliment this work). The piece is incomplete, so I feel like there should be some completion by someone qualified based on Beethoven's style. This melodic jump from theme A to B sounds disconnected, too sudden, like missing bridges, as well as for the other parts. Also, the main theme is too scarce, which causes it to become boring (although catchy and somewhat pretty).
I'm mystified. Why does Measure 3 suggest an E-major chord rather than an E-minor, which is in the key of A-minor? Also, D# doesn't occur in A-minor either.
You can think of A minor as having a choice between an E major or E minor five chord. Its like that because we like the sound of the note G# moving to the note A so much (a leading tone, it leads your ear to the tonic). Since it doesn't exist naturally in A minor, musicians of old said screw it I'm putting it in there anyway. We call it A harmonic minor. Its really as simple as that. The D# is either a chromatic approach note or is acting as a leading tone to E just like the G# did to A.
9 year after upload and this is one of the most valuable videos I'm come across for helping me appreciate the composition and structure of Fur Elise. Thanks for sharing, and as others have commented, please continue to upload more music analysis!
Thank you!
Beethoven was a master at emotional composing. His musical intelligence reveals a genius mind. Thank you for such a nice analysis
7 years has passed since you post this wonderful analysis. your presentation is clean and concise. I'm glad found this piece today. I wish you would keep posting and share your knowledges with the world. Thank You!
Thank you!
Very helpful. I'm learning to play it, and this is helping because it helps me understand how all the parts fit together.
omg this was so helpful for my music class, well broken down and explained. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Wow! Beautiful, wonderful and amazing analysis! Thank you!
Nice analysis!
madam......u r awesome....thank you so much for sharing..god bless uu
WOW! Amazing Analysis.
Thanks A Lot
Thx for the video - however, important aspects were not explained. The 3 themes have very different music style influences. This mix is crazy for today's standards but probably even more back then. Is that the reason why this piece was not published by Beethoven himself? What are the music genres Beethoven is using? A romantic B Germa folk/Wiener Klassik C Baroque with a mix of Bach and Vivaldi ? Wild guess but I would be delighted to hear opinions.
I love it ! 💜💜
I appreciate the analysis Eunmi! Would you like to analyse Nessun Dorma? It would be great if you provide an analysis for it. :)
Ahh I I love this. Thank you.
Your analysis and presentation are awesome (I'd need time to find more adequate words to compliment this work).
The piece is incomplete, so I feel like there should be some completion by someone qualified based on Beethoven's style.
This melodic jump from theme A to B sounds disconnected, too sudden, like missing bridges, as well as for the other parts. Also, the main theme is too scarce, which causes it to become boring (although catchy and somewhat pretty).
I'm mystified. Why does Measure 3 suggest an E-major chord rather than an E-minor, which is in the key of A-minor? Also, D# doesn't occur in A-minor either.
You can think of A minor as having a choice between an E major or E minor five chord. Its like that because we like the sound of the note G# moving to the note A so much (a leading tone, it leads your ear to the tonic). Since it doesn't exist naturally in A minor, musicians of old said screw it I'm putting it in there anyway. We call it A harmonic minor. Its really as simple as that. The D# is either a chromatic approach note or is acting as a leading tone to E just like the G# did to A.
Beethoven utilized the A harmonic minor so that the V chord would be major
thank you so much
This is so interesting
I Love Ludwig van Beethoven Sooooooooooo......... Much!.
good!
"although it sounds like a simple piece" it dosen't
OH MY GOSH WILL YOU NOT SPEND SOOOO MUCH TIME LECTURING???!?!??!!
But its a music analysis lol
+emily wang When you came to this video which is titled 'analysis', what did you expect?
+emily wang What a stupid and disrespectful comment on a very intelligent and useful analysis!
markinsiam lol
What a dummy. Do you have the attention span of a gnat?