🎹 Sonate No. 23, Appassionata 3rd Movement
🎭 Emotional Character
This is a piece volatile and expressive, cycling between despair and burning resolve — hurtling at breathtaking speed and neither soft nor loud, simply present, dense as a forest, every layer occupied, swinging dramatically between extremes of loud and soft.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
✋ Average Hand Size
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
17
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
97htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
49
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
7,220
Total Notes
19%
Interleaved
6.65
Avg N/Beat
4
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
4/25
19% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 10 notes/beat (avg 6.65) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
4 ornamental notes (0.1%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: F#2–C7 (54 st) | Left: F1–C#6 (56 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
43 st (3Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
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Wide dynamic range (f avg) - strong expressive control needed
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🎹 Note Range - Piano Keyboard
Upper dot = RH (Right Hand)
Lower dot = LH (Left Hand)
White dot on black key = sharp/flat note used
📐 Note Range per Hand · Sheet Preview
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F#2 |
| Highest | C7 |
| Span | 54 st (4Oct+TT) |
| Notes | 3,797 |
| Widest leap | 36 st E6→E3 |
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | F1 |
| Highest | C#6 |
| Span | 56 st (4Oct+m6) |
| Notes | 3,423 |
| Widest leap | 43 st F1→C5 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.7 notes · 485 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.3 notes · 686 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 59 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
This piece has extensive running passages — smooth thumb-under technique is essential.
🖐 RH: 26 runs · longest 19 notes
🤚 LH: 33 runs · longest 19 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
47%
Repeated
134 of 285 bars contain repeated phrases — a good portion of the piece recycles earlier material, reducing the unique learning load.
Repeated bar
Unique bar
🎯 Suggested Practice Passages
?Each "passage" is 2 consecutive measures (ô nhịp). The algorithm scores every passage by note density and interval leaps, then picks the 3 hardest for focused practice.
The hardest passages in this piece — spend extra time here before running the full piece.
📍 Measures 33–34
Hardest
📍 Measures 129–130
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 224–225
3rd hardest
