Second Movement: General Notes Flashcards
What helps to classify this movement as conforming to ternary form?
It switches modes for the middle section.
The middle section’s theme - though based on the main material presented in the opening - is different, like the shorter note values; the demi-semi quavers seen in bars 48-55 create maximum sonority.
It returns to the tonal centre for the final section.
How does Haydn effectively transition from the middle section to the final section?
He uses a monophonic link (bars 70-73).
The piece returns to G major, through maintaining its dominant for six bars before, to create a perfect cadence.
Haydn incorporates motifs from the middle section into the next one, like maintaining the broken chord semi-quavers of the middle section in the Alberti bass seen in the second violin. This makes the transition more subtle, and develops the original material presented.
How do the themes of the second movement relate to the first?
The first motif presented holds the same constituent intervals of the first motif presented in the exposition of the first movement. The use of the double dotted rhythm also pertains to the introduction.
Describe the structure of the first eight bars.
They hold antecedent and consequent phrasing, where the fourth bar ends in the dominant (D major), and then resolves through a pivot chord on the new tonic in the eighth bar.
What happens in bars 21-22?
The motif presented in the first bar is given sequential treatment.
What is the structure of the ‘A’ section?
Rounded binary form.
How is rounded binary form expressed in the opening section?
After establishing the little ‘A’ section, the little ‘B’ section develops the material presented, mainly the rhythmic ideas. It is different melodically, and also tonally, as it is in the dominant key. However, is undergoes rapid harmonic change, to perfect cadence back into the tonic for the return of the little ‘A’ section.
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