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Quick questions on The Classical style and sonata form explained: O-Level Music
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What is sonata form?Show answer
Sonata form (or first-movement form) organises a movement into three main sections built around key contrast. It is the most important single structure of the period.
What is the exposition?Show answer
The exposition presents the main material:
What is the development?Show answer
The development takes the themes, or fragments of them, and reworks them: breaking them up, combining them, and moving restlessly through a series of keys. This is the most unstable, dramatic part, building tension before the return.
What is q1?Show answer
Name three features that distinguish the Classical style from the Baroque. [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Name the three main sections of sonata form in order. [3 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Explain the key relationship between the two subjects in the exposition and in the recapitulation. [2 marks]
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