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The Violin Music Of Beethoven, 1902
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1Equally vocal in character is the second subject in F major, with its closely interwoven imitation in the piano part. Beethoven, great pianist though he was, never fell into the error of making the piano part more brilliant and interesting than that for the violin; a perfect balance is always maintained. The movement is full of interesting points over which we would fain linger, showing the admirable use Beethoven makes of his thematic material; the shortening or lengthening out of short phrases from the principal theme in the latter half of the movement, with the occasional addition of some new feature of interest, and the care with which all dynamic signs are indicated, so as to bring each climatic point into the strongest relief, all of which risings and fallings, or fluctuations in the music, we usually, but rather more vaguely and loosely, are content to sum up under the one term "expression," or by borrowing from the sister art, the term "shading." The Allegro piacevole is a rondo of most graceful and captivating character upon this theme started by the pianoforte:—
3Ex. 7. Allegro piacevole.
4p dolce.
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