Essay - 3rd mvts/dance forms

Question 1

3rd movements/dance movements - Stamitz Op 3 No 2

Answer 1

• Old fashioned in some of its features e.g. first and second violins play the same throughout
• Reduction of forces in the trio (no trumpets) is standard, but the relatively independent woodwind parts are more innovative.
• Another more old-fashioned feature = B section of the rounded binary minuet starts with a new idea before the A’ brings back the opening material. Composers later in the Classical period nearly always treated the beginning of the B section a bit like a sonata development, modulating whilst fragmenting ideas from the A section rather than introducing anything new

Question 2

3rd movements - Haydn 104

Answer 2

• Keeps some aspects of what would make a typical minuet and trio and cleverly adds some changes too.
• 3rd mov - rhythm and metre (3/4) typical of traditional minuet and trio + use of on beat crotchets and quavers made it appealing to dance to
• Accents on 3rd beats
• Trio is in Bb major (unusual) - necesitates link section for minuet repeat in tonic.

Question 3

3rd movements - Beethoven 3

Answer 3

• Mv 3 scherzo trio - allows for more development than minuet trio - faster and more aggressive
• Tempo and syncopations make it more aggressive
• Not created as dance but form of rebellion to aristocracy