Mozart

Question 1

Describe the Harmony

Answer 1

Based on triads in root position and first inversion

Question 2

How are the perfect cadences drawn out, and give an example of this

Answer 2

By the use of long trills, such as that at bars 58-9

Question 3

Give an example of the use of 7th chords

Answer 3

V7 chord at bar 63

Question 4

Describe the melody

Answer 4

Based on scales and arpeggios, and is very conjunct (a good example of this is bar 13)

Question 5

Give a bar number of ornamentation

Answer 5

Bar 58 trill

Question 6

What is the predominant texture?

Answer 6

Melody dominated homophony, with the melody in the right hand

Question 7

Where are the densest chords used, and give an example

Answer 7

at the beginning of the second subject, for example at bar 23

Question 8

Give an example of right hand octaves

Answer 8

Bar 137

Question 9

What structural form is the piece in, and what is at the end?

Answer 9

Sonata form with a codetta

Question 10

How does the second subject differ in the exposition and the recapitulation

Answer 10

in the exposition, the second subject modulates to the dominant, but in the recapitulation, both subjects are in the tonic

Question 11

How did Mozart’s piano differ from a modern one?

Answer 11

It was smaller, however he still pushed it to the limits in terms of the range used in the piece.