Listening Chart 13 Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, complete work

Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, complete work

31 min., 31 sec.

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FIRST MOVEMENT(Allegro con brio, 2/4; sonata form) C minor, ff image
See Listening Chart 12.
SECOND MOVEMENT(Andante, 3/8; variations) A major, p image
0:00 Theme 1 Ends with repeated cadences
1:03 Theme 2 Played by clarinets and bassoons
1:26 Trumpets enter. (goes to C MAJOR, ff)
2:12 Theme 1 Variation 1, played by strings
3:06 Theme 2 Clarinets and bassoons image
3:29 Trumpets enter. (goes to C MAJOR, ff)
4:16 Theme 1 Variations 2–4 (without repeated cadences), ending f; then a long, quiet transition: woodwinds
6:13 Theme 2 Trumpets C MAJOR, ff
6:58 Theme 1 Variations 5 (minor; woodwinds) and 6 (full orchestra); cadences image
8:29 Coda A major
THIRD MOVEMENT (Allegro, 3/4; A B A') C minor, pp
Scherzo (A) image
0:00 a b
0:41 a'b'
1:21 a''b'' Ends with a loud cadence built from b
Trio (B) C MAJOR, ff image
1:52 |: c :| Fugal
2:25 d c'
2:56 d c' Reorchestrated, p; runs into scherzo (goes back to C minor, pp)
Scherzo (A')
3:30 Scherzo repeated, shorter and reorchestrated, pp
4:46 Transition Timpani; leads directly into the fourth movement
FOURTH MOVEMENT (Allegro, 2/2; sonata form) (goes to C MAJOR, ff ) image
EXPOSITION C MAJOR, ff
0:00 Theme 1 March theme
0:34 Bridge theme Low horns and bassoons image
1:00 Theme 2
1:27 Cadence theme
Development image
1:57 Development begins; modulation.
2:02 Theme 2 and its bass developed
3:31 Retransition Recall of the scherzo (A′, 3/4 meter) (recall of C minor, pp)
Recapitulation C MAJOR, ff
4:03 Theme 1
4:38 Bridge theme
5:07 Theme 2
5:33 Cadence theme
Coda
6:01 Coda; three sections, accelerating; uses parts of the bridge, cadence theme, and theme 1 C MAJOR, ff