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  2. Exposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    The term is most widely used [4] as an analytical convenience to denote a portion of a movement identified as an example of classical tonal sonata form. The exposition typically establishes the music's tonic key, and then modulates to, and ends in, the dominant. [5] If the exposition starts in a minor key, it typically modulates to the relative ...

  3. Sonata theory - Wikipedia

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    The entire sonata form, therefore, is understood as a dynamic trajectory toward the ESC, the basic plan of which is foreshadowed by the exposition's approach to the EEC. This teleology is central to Sonata Theorys conception of the dramatic and expressive potential of sonata form as a whole. The crux is the part of the recapitulation where the ...

  4. Sonata form - Wikipedia

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    The sonata form (also sonata-allegro form or first movement form) is a musical structure generally consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation. It has been used widely since the middle of the 18th century (the early Classical period ).

  5. Three-key exposition - Wikipedia

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    In music, the three-key exposition is a particular kind of exposition used in sonata form. Normally, a sonata form exposition has two main key areas. The first asserts the primary key of the piece, that is, the tonic. The second section moves to a different key, establishes that key firmly, arriving ultimately at a cadence in that key.

  6. Piano Sonata No. 6 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    The third movement is in sonata form, with a fugal development. The exposition has theme 1 in F major and a closing section in C major. The recapitulation is unusual because the 1st theme is a fugal variation instead of a literal repeat. The movement has a coda based on the closing section.

  7. Recapitulation (music) - Wikipedia

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    Haydn's Sonata in G Major, Hob. XVI: G1, I, mm. 58-80 Play ⓘ. [1] In music theory, the recapitulation is one of the sections of a movement written in sonata form. The recapitulation occurs after the movement's development section, and typically presents once more the musical themes from the movement's exposition.

  8. Piano Sonata No. 11 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    The second movement is in E ♭ major and is also in sonata form. Its opening melody is often compared to the later music of Chopin. [2] The exposition starts in the tonic key and ends in the dominant key. The development plays around with the first theme of the exposition, slowly building intensity until both hands play constant sixteenth notes.

  9. Piano Sonata in A minor, D 537 (Schubert) - Wikipedia

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    In sonata form. The exposition modulates to the submediant, F major, rather than to the usual mediant, C major. The recapitulation begins in the subdominant, D minor, and most of the recapitulation's second group is in A major before a short coda returns to the minor mode for the movement's ending. II. Allegretto quasi andantino. E major. A ...