Compound Themes Size 16 measures (standard) Types There are two types of Compound Themes Compound Period The compound antecedent can be…
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Piano Sonatas – Analysis: Hybrid Themes OVERVIEW Music from the proper classical period can seem simple from the surface but there is a…
Harmony review – Analysing Haydn Piano Sonatas It is fundamental, for the sake of music analysis, to be very confident about our…
DEVELOPMENT This section opens with theme A transposed to the dominant tone as expected. It is then followed by an episode focusing on…
I – Allegro Moderato This is a rather unussual example for an early Haydn Sonata. The way it is written proposes a big challenge to the…
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…
Summary This is an early work which already depicts the traditional sonata form. With irregularly sized phrases and a long episode…
Finale This finale is written using a very economic deal of resources, this is clear even by looking at the notation itself. Formally…
Second Movement – Minuet and trio Menuet This Menuet is written following an A-B-A’ structure. “A” is substantially varied at the end of…
DEVELOPMENT One of this sonata’s main features is the fact that it hardly departs from the tonal centre. There are certain modulatory…