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poettothecars
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since 2006-02-10
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0 posted 2006-06-25 07:41 PM


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Moonlight Sonata
26 June 2006

To look up
and know
Tomorrow
was there

An azure sky
dark with night
The moon full
unto eyes apart

Two people stranded
divided at their birth
Souls of an avenue
at last worldly united

This ballerina
her stage displaced
To dance in the moonlight
and know this could be love


Ludwig van Beethoven’s opus 27 no. 2 is the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor “Quasi una
fantasia” (Italian: Almost a fantasy), popularly known as the “Moonlight” Sonata. Considered
not the follow the traditional sonata form, “Quasi una fantasia” to define this difference
where the first movement is in sonata form, and the movements follow the fast-slow-fast
pattern. Unlike  Beethoven’s other sonatas, where the sonata form movement is at the end.

Widely regarded as one of the most famous piano compositions of all time from the Classical
era. German born composer and pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote this
sonata in 1801 and in 1832 [1836?], several years after Beethoven’s death, the German poet
and music critic Ludwig Rellstab compared the music of the first movement to moonlight
shining on Lake Lucerne. Since then, Moonlight Sonata has stayed the “official” unofficial
title of the sonata. With the “Moonlight” Sonata being one of Beethoven’s most popular and
well known works.


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares


© Copyright 2006 Christopher W Herbert - All Rights Reserved
FiercestCalm
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since 2006-06-24
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michigan
1 posted 2006-06-25 08:47 PM


this is beautiful! and i greatly enjoyed the musical history lesson at the end.
Enchantress
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Canada eh.
2 posted 2006-06-25 08:52 PM


One of my favourite pieces of music..
Well done..and very much enjoyed.
Hugs~Nancy

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain ~

poettothecars
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since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093
New Zealand
3 posted 2006-06-26 12:15 PM


Even if in this composition, my heart is in another place, where across the world, two people,
of that in a man and woman, perhaps in love, but more in like at this stage, although apart,
can share in one central view.

That of the moon. Or was it just the innocence of a child in the way her thoughts were
express to an older man, newly found in kindness, yet still far away to her own environment.
One she indicates she was prepared to share with him. This "Moonlight Sonata" in all its present worth

a poet who cares

JL
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since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128
Texas, USA
4 posted 2006-06-27 11:36 PM


Very nice!!

JL

Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed:
blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
~Jesus Christ

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