This term paper was written in graduate school, though I think it may have been in an undergraduate class. I don’t quite remember at this point. The paper is dated 12/9/1992. I could not find the title page. I’m quite certain I received an A on this one. And since this was 1992 and I had no scanner, my examples were merely copied on a copy machine and glued onto the blank spots – so I no longer have the actual music samples for those examples. Ludwig van Beethoven contributed a wealth of innovations to the evolution of music. One such contribution was his expansion of the symphonic coda to become an integral part of the sonata-allegro movements. Through Beethoven’s nine symphonies, one may see a definite pattern of awareness that the … Read entire article »