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Sonata #8 (Patetica) Opus 13 (Dedicata al Principe Carlo von Lichnowsky) written by: Ludwig van Beethoven tracked by: Azo This is by far my favorite Beethoven solo piano work, spanning the piano from top to bottom with massive chords, quick finger work, thundering melodies, and subtle diminishment. Written in 1798, this is still one of the most popular performance pieces ever, and a milestone for any pianist daring enough to test his or her endurance. I first heard this piece during one of my weekly piano lessons when I was six or seven. An advanced student was trying desperately to accomplish the monster octaves through the Allegro molto con brio section. I fell in love with the first movement immediately, but did not pursue it for years to come. While in 8th grade, my teacher and I were searching for a suitable competition piece, and this one came to mind. With little time to prepare, we began working. As you will notice in this track, the first movement is over six minutes long. In the competition I was entering, a soloist had no more than six minutes. I spent ten hours a day speeding up my performance, so that I would not be disqualified. On competition day, not only did I make it in under six minutes, I also won the State level trophy for my performance. I have not performed the second or third movement of this piece, though I would like to challenge the third someday. A close friend of mine once performed the third movement in competition, and was unanimously voted the winner. I know that the piano instrument used does not completely offer justice to this track, but I can find none better currently. All I can do is try my best to offer a solid interpretatin of a classic piano solo with limited tools. The score was taken from a Belwin Mills book, edited by Artur Schnabel. I did not follow the markings exacly in the book, as I didn't particularly care for some of his interpretation, especially in the dynamic markings. Also, there are several notes that I noticed in this book that I have not seen in other scores. For instance, patterm 96, channel 01, line 56 shows a D4, where most other scores of this particular piece leave that out. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that this is not a run-of-the-mill interpretation. I have taken license in many areas, including tempo variations, dynamics, styling, and harmony. So, whatever you think of this, I'd like to know. Jesse (A.K.A. Azo) email: jworley_airmail.net Release Date: 3-26-99 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information The score that I tracked this from had much different markings that those I remember from previous scores, but this is a breakdown of the different sections, organized by pattern. Most of these marking are directly from the score, though some are my own. I did not follow these markings directly, so this is only a partial breakdown of what you're hearing. Movement Patterns Time -------- -------- ---- First Movement 000-083 6:38 Second Movement 084-110 4:40 Third Movement 111-153 3:38 Total Time 000-153 14:56 Patterns Markings Dynamics Special Instructions -------- -------- -------- -------------------- 000-003 Grave p-ff serioso 004-008 Grave p-ff dolce, quieto, pesante 009-017 Allegro molto e con brio pp-fff non troppo legato 018-027 Leggierissimo pp-mp appasionato ma ritmico 027-038 Legato p-ff non stringendo, agitato 039-042 Grave fp-p-pp sonore 043-060 Allegro molto e con brio p-ff semplice, pesante 061-068 Leggierissimo pp-mf leggiero, calmare un poco 069-073 Legato p-fff quieto, articolato 074-076 Allegro f-sf artiolato 077-080 Grave pp-sf semplice, espressionado 081-083 Allegro molto e con brio p-ff pesante 084-091 Adagio cantabile pp-p legatissimo, sereno 092-097 Tranquillo pp-p ma con sentiment 098-101 Adagio cantabile ppp-p dolce, con abbandono 102-105 Tranquil pp-fp egualmente 105-110 Cantando pp-fp poco calando, articolato 111-118 Allegro p-mp-f delicato,leggiero 119-123 Leggierissimo p-mp-mf leggiero, distinto 124-133 Legatissimo p-mf-ff tranquilo, dolce 134-149 Allegro p-mf-fff delicato, calando 150-153 Semplice pp-ff non troppo legato, breve --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for listening! Hope you enjoyed it! Greets out to Damien, LittleElk, hang0wer, velocity, DeepJ, Sergei, Zola, Semtex, SLH, Divion, Virt, The Nuke, Crimson, and anyone else I forgot to mention.
Piano Main Long Piano Main Short Piano Main Staccato Piano Secondary Long Piano Secondary X-Long ------------------------- All of these instruments are mapped to the same 6 piano samples. In order to get the correct sound I had to make duplicates and modify their settings individually. ------------------------- Piano 1 Piano 1 Piano 1 Piano 2 Piano 2 Piano 2 Piano 3 Piano 3 Piano 3 Piano 4 Piano 4 Piano 4 Piano 5 Piano 5 Piano 5 Piano 6 Piano 6 Piano 6 ------------------------- These Piano samples were ripped from a track by Picman. I have no idea whether he created it or ripped it from someone else. Anyway, I started writing the track with a different set of samples, but switched to these after hearing how much better they sounded. ------------------------- -Shift+F9 for song info-
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It's quite long and good, 200 orders, 14:57 mins. It is not very "dense".
It's amazing how long it is, everything it has, and it only weighs 209kB.