"Für Elise" (für Elise) is a piano piece composed by Beethoven. Beethoven is a great composer who embodies the culmination of Western classical music and pioneered romantic music. People are more familiar with his large-scale works such as symphonies, concertos, chamber music and operas, but his few instrumental pieces also left a deep impression on people. The piano piece "For Alice" is one of the more famous ones. However, the score was discovered in 1867, so it was not published during Beethoven's lifetime.
"Dedicated to Alice" has a simple image and simple techniques, which is obviously designed to suit the playing level of beginners. After it was published, it spread like wildfire and almost became one of the must-play songs for beginners. The music is written in the form of a rondo, surrounding the basic theme, with two contrasting interludes. The theme that appears at the beginning is simple and friendly, portraying the image of a gentle, beautiful, simple and lively girl. This theme is repeated three times, with two contrasting interludes in between. The first insert is based on the new tonality, with bright tones, expressing joyful emotions; the second insert, set against the fixed bass of the left hand, is dark in color and strong in rhythm, making the music appear serious and firm. A series of ascending triplets and then smooth and lively descending chromatic tones naturally lead to the third recurrence of the theme. The music ends in a joyful and bright atmosphere.
The following is the one-handed piano score of "Für Elise" (if you use one hand, you can only play the main melody part of the above line, and then add your left hand to it after you become proficient):
"Canon "The original meaning is "rules". Refers to a writing technique for polyphonic music. Its characteristic is that each part imitates each other regularly, that is, the following parts imitate the melody of the previous part in turn according to a certain time distance. Music written in the canon technique is called "canon music". The carol we are familiar with is a type of canon. Canons appeared in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Later generations often adopted ancient tunes as canon themes. Such as Bach's "Five Canon Variations". Canon techniques were also commonly used in symphonies and sonatas of the 19th century, such as Beethoven's "Symphony of Destiny".
The most famous canon is the canon of the seventeenth-century German composer Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706). Its full name is "Canon and Gigue in D" (Canon in D major) ).
To be precise, as the name of a musical form, canon does not refer to a specific piece of music. Its original meaning is "rule". "The same melody is played in each part at different heights such as the same degree or fifth degree." "Appear one after another, resulting in continuous imitation of one another." Just like the love that lasts until death in the world, two people in love accompany each other through life and death, and are extremely entangled.
The following is the one-handed piano score of "Canon" (if you use one hand, you can only play the main melody part of the above line, and you can add your left hand after you become proficient):