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

Haydn XVI:12 First Movement – Andante EXPOSITION This early sonata slowly starts departing from the “partita” structure and establishes…

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

Haydn minuets MINUET Another Minuet that looks like borrowed from a Baroque suite. Plain A-B-A structure; this time ending in a…

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

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

Second movement: Minuet and Trio MINUET AND TRIO FORM Minuet and Trio: Music definitions This minuet is laid out in the most traditional…

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

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