Description

Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800. This foundational study outlines a new, up-to-date paradigm for understanding the compositional choices found in the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: sonatas, chamber music, symphonies, overtures, and concertos.

CONTENTS

1. Contexts
2. Sonata Form as a Whole: Foundational Considerations
3. The Medial Caesura and the Two-Part Exposition
4. The Continuous Exposition
5. The Primary Theme
6. The Transition (TR)
7. The Secondary Theme (S) and Essential Expositional Closure: Initial Considerations
8. S-Complications: EEC Deferral and Apparent Double Medial Caesuras (TMB)
9. The Closing Zone (C)
10. The Development (Developmental Space)
11. The Recapitulation (Recapitulatory Space
Recapitulatory Rotation)
12. Non-Normative Openings of the Recapitulatory Rotation: Alternatives and Deformations
13. Parageneric Spaces: Coda and Introduction
14. Sonata Form in Minor Keys
15. The Three- and Four-Movement Sonata Cycle
16. Sonata Types and the Type 1 Sonata
17. The Type 2 Sonata
18. Rondos and the Type 4 Sonata
19. The Type 5 Sonata: Fundamentals
20. The Type 5 Sonata: Mozart’s Concertos (R1: The Opening Ritornello)
21. The Type 5 Sonata: Mozart’s Concertos (Solo and Larger Expositions: Solo 1 + Ritornello 2)
22. The Type 5 Sonata: Mozart’s Concertos (Development and Recapitulation: From Solo 2 through Ritornello 4)
Appendix 1. Some Grounding Principles of Sonata Theory
Appendix 2. Terminology: Rotation and Deformation