Part Five: Communicating Your Discoveries: Moonlight Sonata

What makes this song unique is the way it is structured, and how the composer put it together. For instance, there are a bunch of little rule-breaking, unique things that make it special. The very first note is a tonic note, and the tonic note is supposed to go to a predominant chord if it is the note the piece starts off with, but Beethoven wrote the tonic to go to a dominant chord, the seven chord. It is similar to other music we have discussed in class because it is from relatively the same era as many of the other pieces we have looked at, classical. It is different from some of the music we have looked at in class because it tends to break a lot of the rules there are when it comes to writing music. The aspect of this piece that I find the most enjoyable is it's tone, and timbre. The way it sounds as if it was only meant for a piano, and then suddenly violins are in the background, perhaps a flute, and the ominous "oh"s of a female voice cause chills through the listener.