Grammar in music.

[Megan]

I appreciate that there is grammar in music, such as Sfordanzo, rests, full stops, slurs, staccato etc.
But listening to Beethoven's rather lovely piano Sonata , no. 15 in D major Op.28 (Pastoral) yesterday, which I enjoy very much until the concluding part, which ends almost as though he gets fed up with it, he snuffs it out rather abrubtly with the two final loud abrupt notes - plunk, plunk , the two notes saying full stop. Sorry that sounds harsh , but I find that many pieces concluding this way with two final loud notes , saying, that's it!
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[Michael]

That's just B slamming down the piano lid and guffawing, as was his wont.
Some people have no subtlety in their humour.

[Peter]

two other Beethoven works immediately spring to mind - the Pastoral symphony and the Violin concerto, both of which end with two sudden loud chords!

[Enrique]

The ending measures of one of B's cello sonatas:

The time signature and tonality may be wrong. A better example of an abrupt ending perhaps is the 3rd movement in the 7th symphony.

[Michael]

A better example of an abrupt ending perhaps is the 3rd movement in the 7th symphony.

Or the ending of the second movement of the 9th.