Harmony, History & Style
Unit 2 - Exercise 4
Beethoven, Sonata in C# Minor ("Moonlight"), Op. 27 No. 2 (1st mvt)
Our last analysis exercise for this unit features the famous first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. Before diving in, I suggest you revisit the previous video lessons on Diatonic Harmony in Unit 1 and Chromatic Diatonic Harmony in Unit 2 (these are accessible via the links on the right hand side or the course index). Click here to download the score and make sure you have a pencil and some manuscript for working out harmonic reductions. As with the previous exercise, my recommendation is to work in the following way: Listen to and/or play...
