Appassionata” op. 57 de Beethoven: analiza unui interpret
Sonata 'Appassionata' Op. 57 by Beethoven: an interpreter's analysis

Summary/Abstract: A hermeneutic, interpretative analysis involves going beyond formal and harmonic analysis to include aspects related to rhetoric, topoi, and dramaturgy. Musical aspects related to language, such as rhetoric and narrativity, are meant to enliven the interpretation, giving it a communicative sense. This work presents a series of specific interpretative conclusions, resulting from the analysis of parameters such as tempo, articulation, timbre, or dynamics. Musical significance has sometimes been compared to a bodily reaction to listening to music, singing, dancing, and playing an instrument. Hepokoski and Darcy, in turn, emphasized the importance of the 'presence of absences' in analysis, focusing attention on what is missing from the score. These statements inspired the author of this work to undertake a hermeneutic analysis of Beethoven's 'Appassionata' Piano Sonata from the performer's perspective. In Op. 57, Beethoven seems to experiment with the symbolic value of representing an absence. Some fundamental musical parameters, such as harmony, melody line, or movement, are systematically missing from the three main themes of the Sonata. How can these absences be understood hermeneutical? Too often, academic analysis is related to nothing but itself, reflecting the outdated ideology of so-called 'absolute music.' On the other hand, performers have relied on their intuition to draw conclusions that go beyond harmonic and formal analysis, ignoring decades of intense study on musical semantics and symbols. By establishing links between interpretation and analysis, performers will gain criteria, and theorists, argumentative strength.

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