Analysing 2nd and 3rd movements from the famous piano Sonata Hob XVI.2 by Joseph Haydn

Analysis of the first movement of Haydn Piano Sonata Hob XVI Number 2

DEVELOPMENT This section opens with theme A transposed to the dominant tone as expected. It is then followed by an episode focusing on the tail of the first ...

Summary This is a standard Menuet and Trio. Both of them written in the A-B-A’ form. The variations in A are implied by the return to the tonic. Menuet The f...

Summary This is an early work which already depicts the traditional sonata form. With irregularly sized phrases and a long episode separating them in the exp...

Finale This finale is written using a very economic deal of resources, this is clear even by looking at the notation itself. Formally speaking, the movement ...

Second Movement – Minuet and trio Menuet This Menuet is written following an A-B-A’ structure. “A” is substantially varied at the end of the piece. A’s antec...

DEVELOPMENT One of this sonata’s main features is the fact that it hardly departs from the tonal centre. There are certain modulatory passages that we can e...

Haydn XVI:12 First Movement – Andante EXPOSITION This early sonata slowly starts departing from the “partita” structure and establishes its first movement in...

Third movement – Scherzo This short but effective finale is structured as a clean A-B-A. “A”’s main rhythmic feature is the fast paced semi-quaver line ancho...

MINUET Another Minuet that looks like borrowed from a Baroque suite. Plain A-B-A structure; this time ending in a contracted “A’”. “B” reminds of the develo...

Harmonic and Composition Analysis EXPOSITION This is a classic example of sonata form in its simplest expression. “A”, in F, states the tonic using a full bo...

Third movement – Adagio This movement is structured in two sections with two virtuoso cadenzas. The first section starts with an “A” theme spread through two...

Second movement - Minuet and Trio MINUET This minuet is laid out in the most traditional manner: a classic A-B-A structure. In terms of the its harmonic plan...

DEVELOPMENT AND RE-EXPOSITON We start with a transposed version of MT complemented with CT. This iteration of CT together with the fact that one of its main ...

Haydn Sonata Hob. XV First Movement in G EXPOSITION The main theme – as well called A - is exposed plainly supported by a contrapuntal accompaniment, that if...

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