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  2. Sonata form - Wikipedia

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    Exceptions to the recapitulation form include Mozart and Haydn works that often begin with the second subject group when the first subject group has been elaborated at length in the development. If a theme from the second subject group has been elaborated at length in the development in a resolving key such as the tonic major or minor or the ...

  3. Subject (music) - Wikipedia

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    In some compositions, a principal subject is announced and then a second melody, sometimes called a countersubject or secondary theme, may occur. When one of the sections in the exposition of a sonata-form movement consists of several themes or other material, defined by function and (usually) their tonality, rather than by melodic ...

  4. History of sonata form - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of composer C.P.E. Bach. The older Italian sonata form differs considerably from the later sonata in the works of the Viennese Classical masters. [1] Between the two main types, the older Italian and the more "modern" Viennese sonata, various transitional types are manifest in the middle of the 18th century, in the works of the Mannheim composers, Johann Stamitz, Franz Xaver Richter ...

  5. Sonata theory - Wikipedia

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    Sonata Theory understands the rhetorical layout of a sonata as progressing through a set of action spaces and moments of "structural punctuation." [8] These action spaces largely correlate with the "themes" or "groups" of the sonata, though each space is differentiated primarily by the unique generic goal that the music pursues within that particular space.

  6. Symphony No. 2 (Strauss) - Wikipedia

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    [6] The recapitulation section is unusual in that it modulates to A-flat major for the second subject group rather than staying in tonic or going to the parallel major; modulating to the mediant major in a minor-key sonata form movement is typically expected in the exposition.

  7. Symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia

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    In sonata form, he writes, the first subject enters in the tonic and the second subject follows in a contrasting but related key harmonically. Tension occurs when the music (and the listener with it) is pulled away from the tonic.

  8. Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    Thus there have been interminable arguments as to whether it should be seen as a kind of sonata form (with the "Turkish" music of bar 331, which is in B ♭ major, functioning as a kind of second group), or a kind of concerto form (with bars 1–207 and 208–330 together making up a double exposition), or even a conflation of four symphonic ...

  9. Dominant (music) - Wikipedia

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    In sonata form in major keys, the second subject group is usually in the dominant key. The movement to the dominant was part of musical grammar, not an element of form. Almost all music in the eighteenth century went to the dominant: before 1750 it was not something to be emphasized; afterward, it was something that the composer could take ...