Ludwig van Beethoven: V. Cavatina from String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130

While this post may be a bit less informative than some of my previous posts due to lack of time (thanks, grad school), I wanted to quickly share a piece I have literally just come across via an assignment for school (thanks, grad school!). I present the Cavatina, movement 5 of 6, from Beethoven's String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130:

First of all, don't trust anyone that doesn't love Beethoven. I could go on for a quite a bit describing how important of a figure he is in music history, how important his innovations to harmony and form were. But considering this is supposed to be a short post, I will leave that to the many theorists who have written thousands of pages in books and articles on the subject. With that said, I hope you enjoy this particularly expressive movement. As I mentioned, it is the fifth movement of a six movement quartet. Unusually so, the first and sixth movements are quite substantial while the inner four are much shorter. These inner movements, 2, 3, 4, and 5, can be thought of as being related by pair (2 and 3, 4 and 5). ***This tidbit of information is brought to you by Chapter 2 of Robert S. Hatten's Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert aka the school assignment that inspired this post (yay, education).***

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