" To depict "distant bells over the graveyard", a wooden board is pressed down on the piano's keys to produce tone clusters.
In this work's final movement the three note motif "A-C-G" representing Nature is contrasted with an adaptation of the hymn "Down in the Cornfield." To depict "distant bells over the graveyard", a wooden board is pressed down on the piano's keys to produce tone clusters. The odd time signature 4 1/2 / 4 appears in its third movement, but most of this piece is written without any bar lines. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quoted in every movement including a section that represents Beth playing the spinet for her father Bronson titled "The Alcotts." For 10 points, name this piano sonata with movements titled "Thoreau" and "Emerson" that was inspired by the transcendentalist spirit of the title locale, composed by Charles Ives.
In this work's final movement the three note motif "A-C-G" representing Nature is contrasted with an adaptation of the hymn "Down in the Cornfield.
Concord Sonata [or Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60]