Sonatina in F, 1st Movement: Final Section

Hello and welcome back I'm Joseph Hoffman,

and in this lesson we're going to learn how to play the final section of "Sonatina in F Major,"

which is attributed to Beethoven Anh. 5, No. 2.

Let's get started by checking out the score.

So let's kick things off by doing some chord analysis.

I've drawn some boxes in,

and consider this all one box. It just goes off the edge of the page here.

I'd like you to pause and see if you can turn these into block chords,

and figure out the name of each triad and write it in your music at home, then press play and we'll check it out together.

Here's what you should have figured out. We have a high D, a B-flat and a G, and that forms a G minor triad.

We have B-flat, G, E, which forms E diminished.

We have a C major triad here, and then

an F major triad, and this brings us back to one of our earlier themes from the A section. Now I have this line here showing just where the page break is because this is the bottom line of the previous page,

and then this is going on to page three of our score.

Remember that counting the subdivided sixteenth notes can help you with the timing of this.

So if I'm starting right here,

1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a e, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a.

Pause the video, and on your own learn this next section starting here up through this downbeat.

Pause to learn the right hand, left hand, alone then press play and we'll check it out together.

Okay, here's what this section sounds like.

Remember, the left hand is in treble staff here.

Rest,

rest,

rest.

Or with counting: 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e, and then it goes:

Back to that theme.

Now let's check out this next section.

Sounds very familiar, right? We played this earlier in the A section.

Now I need you to compare this to what we played on the A section. I'd like you to pause and see how long it matches exactly,

and when it changes.

If it changes.

Maybe it's an exact repeat, but I want you to check every note and find where in the music

it changes if it does,

and then press play and we'll look at it together.

Okay, the answer is it's an exact repeat up until measure 56.

So we have the same,

still the same,

still the same.

Here we get something new.

It's very important to know where it changes.

So we've got something new to learn now.

Let's stop right there. I'd like you to pause and learn

from beat 2 of measure 56 all the way up to the downbeat of measure 60.

Pause to learn that on your own.

Read the notes carefully, try to learn it right from the start, and then press play and we'll check it out together.

Okay, it should sound like this:

If that matched what you played, great job.

Now notice here it gets softer and we see mp for mezzo piano dolce.

Dolce means sweetly.

So, here comes our coda, and it's going to be played very sweetly.

Notice how the hands kind of take turns here.

Okay, so the right hand's doing this little downward pattern, then the left hand has an upward pattern.

Okay, pause and work on that section on your own from measure 60 through 64, then press play to go on.

So again, the counting can really help you know how fast to play these eighth notes.

1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a,

1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a

The counting also helps you know how long to hold those quarter notes at the end. 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a.

Otherwise, it will be tempting to play those too fast and not hold long enough.
So you get a nice little workout for your fingers 2 and 3.

A little trill going on in measures 65 and 66, so keep that really relaxed. Just let your hand kind of rock back and forth really gently.

Then switch to a finger 1 here to get you ready for that reach up.

Pause the video and practice right hand alone left hand alone.

If you'd like to challenge yourself to do it hands together, go for it! Pause to work on that, then press play to go on.

All right, we've made it to the end of this movement. Great work,

and now it's time for you to ...