Listening Chart 12 Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, first movement

Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, first movement

Sonata form. 7 min., 18 sec.

EXPOSITION
0:00 Theme 1 Main theme with two fermatas, followed by the first continuation (based on image another fermata (the third) image
0:20 Main motive image ff, is followed by a second continuation: timpani, crescendo. image
0:46 Bridge theme French horn, f
Second Group
0:49 Theme 2 Major mode, p, strings and woodwinds image in background) image
1:17 Cadence theme Based on image motive
1:22 CADENCE
1:26 Exposition repeated
DEVELOPMENT
2:52 First modulation, using image motive; French horns, ff; minor mode
2:58 Development of first continuation of theme 1
3:21 Climactic passage of powerful reiterations: image
3:28 Development of bridge theme
3:39 Fragmentation of bridge theme to two notes, alternating between strings and winds image
3:49 Fragmentation of bridge theme to one note, alternating between strings and winds, p
4:07 Retransition Based on image , ff, runs directly into the recapitulation
RECAPITULATION
4:13 Theme 1 Harmonized; two fermatas. First continuation of theme; woodwind background. image
4:31 Slow oboe cadenza in place of the third fermata
4:46 Second continuation of theme 1
5:06 Bridge Theme Bassoons, f
Second Group
5:09 Theme 2 Strings and winds, p (image in timpani); major mode
5:42 Cadence theme This time it does not stop.
CODA
5:49 Another climax of reiterations (as in the development) image
6:04 Returns to the minor mode; new expanded version of bridge theme, in counterpoint with new scale figure
6:19 New marchlike theme, brass; winds and strings build up. image
6:51 Theme 1: climactic presentation in brass. Last fermatas.
6:59 First continuation of theme 1, with a pathetic coloration; oboe and bassoon figures
7:04 Strong conclusion on image