Music 120 Chapter 22 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Sonata Form

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a musical structure consisting of an exposition, development, and recapitulation, allowing for the presentation, development, and resolution of multiple themes within a single movement. Sonata form was widely used throughout the Classical Era and the nineteenth century.

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Exposition

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the section within a sonata-form movement that introduces all of the movement's themes

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Development

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the section within a sonata-form movement that thematically and harmonically manipulates the movement's themes most intensively

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Recapitulation

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the third and final section within a sonata-form movement, in which all the themes presented in the exposition return, all in the tonic key

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Rounded Binary Form

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a binary form in which the opening idea returns in the tonic key about halfway through the second section, "rounding out" the form.

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Coda

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Italian for "tail". A section at the end of a musical work or movement that stands outside any formal structure and brings the whole to a close.