Viewed 411 times 3 Im currently playing the 3rd Movement of Moonlight Sonata and noticed myself always hitting the last note in Measure 22 even though it is a tied note. F is, in other words, G natural.Īlso Check: How To Make Music With Piano Meditation For Stressful Times This means you raise the double-sharped note by two half-steps. Youll also encounter double-sharps in this piece. When youre just starting out, it might be helpful to write down the accidentals on your sheet music. When encountering accidentals, remember: if a note gets an accidental, that accidental lasts for the entire measure. This is a piece where flats and sharps change a lot. Its one of the many ways Beethoven pushed music from classical rules into a new era of music the romantic era. It was unusual to start with such a slow movement and end with such a fast one. The Moonlight Sonata was written when he was 31, so there would have been some symptoms at the time he wrote this. It was a gradual loss which started when he was around 28 years old. Its well known that Beethoven lost his hearing.