Piano Concerto No.3 (first movement)

[oboe_15]

Can anyone tell me the use of "cannon" in this piece? PLEASE! I am desperate for a definition! I have looked an all of my books and my music teacher is sick!

Also a good definition on the sonata form used in this piece!

Thanks

[Peter]

Canon is when two or more parts imitate each other, entering in such a way that the melody overlaps. This occurs briefly in the first movement of the 3rd concerto at the end of the orchestral exposition (Bars 104-108). It also happens in bars 3-8 of the cadenza Beethoven wrote for this movement.

The use of sonata form is pretty standard in this concerto with Exposition, Development, Recapitulation and Coda as one would expect.
In the Exposition, Beethoven's 2nd theme enters in the relative major (Eb) and in the recapitulation it is in the tonic major (C). One striking feature of this movement occurs in the coda where Beethoven keeps the soloist playing right to the end of the movement - I think this is the first example of this in a concerto.

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[oboe_15]

Oh, I had a burning suspision it was something like that. Thankyou Peter!
So now I can answer it with a little more ease!