Analysis Of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony

Writing Assignment #1 In Beethoven’s Eroica symphony he uses each of the four movements to tell a story of different feelings such as life, joy, death and future. In the symphony’s first movement he conveys through his music the feelings of life, youth, hope, joy, and then confusion in the form of a sonata. The second movement embodies death both public and personal and a sense of innocence this movement is more of a funeral march a type typical to this time. The third movement seemed to convey the future and the joys of creativity this movement appears lively and rapid movements typical of scherzo style with varying dynamics until ultimately reaching a full fortissimo. The fourth movement is where Beethoven showed off his skills as a great composer and who he was showing off what the movie “Keeping score, Beethoven’s Eroica” called his musical fluff overwhelming the audience with a sense of paradise and joyful emotions. Beethoven uses a variety of different instruments to express every emotional contrast throughout Eroica. However, he focuses on the uses of cellos, violins, violas, and oboes to maintain the melody. In the first movement after the

Beethoven to me showed his life from when it was great and filled with the joys of youth and full of life to express concern and confusion as he starts moving towards the more darker parts of his life which he conveys through his intonation and makes you feel what he was feeling at these different times in his life. Nothing about Beethoven is simple for me the term Eroica is what symphony No. 3 embodies telling a heroic story of going from joyful, to falling into frustration and rage, then the realization that he can and would overcome his darkness, and then leave people awestruck as he serenades the audience and shows off his true musical