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Moonlight Sonata |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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5494 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 |
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FiercestCalm Junior Member
since 2006-06-24
Posts 31michigan |
this is beautiful! and i greatly enjoyed the musical history lesson at the end. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
One of my favourite pieces of music.. Well done..and very much enjoyed. Hugs~Nancy ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand |
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 |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Very nice!! JL  Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: |
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