…better know your sonata!
Form, Genre, Period
This site is both for preparations for a seminar discussion for Thursday, 25 February, 2021, but also for my students exploring music by Mozart, Haydn, Clementi, and Beethoven.
For students of Prof. Yu, review the email you received.
A little Mozart
Below is a diagram through which you can see the form of Mozart’s K332 expressed visually. Please listen to the piece and move THROUGH the chart IN REAL TIME AS YOU LISTEN.
Note that there are listening lists further down on this page.
For Discussion
For our meeting, please do the guided listening exercise to the left, and begin to consider how these formal elements are manifest in your sonata. (Think of it as this: you are currently the local specialist on your piece, and so you should be ready to respond to questions about the piece.
More specifically, for Thursday I want you to be able to DESCRIBE (to me and your colleagues from Prof. Yu’s studio) the developmental work happening in sonata’s first movement. By this I do NOT mean that you tell us what happens in bar X and then bar X+1, and then bar X+n, but what were the composers STRATEGIES for keeping energy and interest happening in the piece, and then where/when those things happen in the piece.
Vienna Express
this is just a list of pieces from a certain period and a certain place. I will keep adding to it as our work together evolves.
Specific Sonatas & Sonatinas
These are pieces we should be ready to talk about in our meeting on Thursday AM (first movements only!)