Chapter 7 - Sonata and Sonata-Allegro Form Flashcards
What is a sonata?
The term sonata refers to a composition of three or four movements for solo instruments in contrasting style, key and tempo. The term also refers to the form of one of the movements (usually the first) of the sonata: sonata-allegro form.
What was a typical sonata form in the Baroque period (Bach, Scarlatti)?
The sonata in the Baroque period was a composition usually in four movements consisting of a slow introduction, a fugal allegro movement, a lyric slow movement and a quick dance-like finale.
What was a typical sonata form in the Classical period (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven)?
The sonata consisted mainly of four movements: the first usually in sonata-allegro form, a slow movement often ternary in design, the Song Form and Trio (minuetto or scherzo and trio) and a fast movement in rondo or sonata-allegro form.
Which composer was most influential in the development of the Classical sonata form?
C.P.E. Bach was most influential, with innovations that came to full maturity with Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
What are the three main sections of a sonata?
Exposition, development and recapitulation.
What does the exposition consist of?
Principal theme (tonic key), transition, subordinate theme (dominant, unless the theme is in a minor key), closing theme or section (dominant).
What does the development consist of?
The principal or subordinate theme or new material is presented with various contrasts in keys, texture and treatment.
What does the recapitulation consist of?
This section may be an exact repetition of the exposition or it may altered and expanded: principal theme (tonic), transition, subordinate theme (tonic), closing theme or section (tonic), coda.
What does the development consist of?
The principal or subordinate theme or new material is presented with various contrasts in keys, texture and treatment.
What does the recapitulation consist of?
This section may be an exact repetition of the exposition or it may altered and expanded: principal theme (tonic), transition, subordinate theme (tonic), closing theme or section (tonic), coda.
