Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mozart - 1st Movement from
Symphony No.40 in G Minor
- CONTEXT
- CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1750-1830, (1788)
- 1ST MOVEMENT FROM SYMPHONY NO.40
- A SYMPHONY IS A LARGE SCALE WORK FOR ORCHESTRA IN 3 OR 4 MOVEMENTS
- STRUCTURES THAT USE SYMMETRY AND BALANCE
- TEXTURE
- MELODY DOMINATED HOMOPHONY
- MAINLY HOMOPHONIC
- SOME POLYPHONIC
PASSAGES WITH DIFFERENT
MELODIES AT THE SAME TIME
(COUNTER MELODIES)
- IMITATION -
PARTS
COPYING
EACH
OTHER
- TONALITY
- HOME KEY = G MINOR (TONIC) - STARTS/FINISHES
- SOME MODULATIONS (CHANGES KEY TO E/B)
- HARMONY
- MAINLY DIATONIC
(USES NOTES
FROM THE KEY)
- USES MAINLY
PRIMARY
CHORDS, I, IV,
V-FUNCTIONAL
HARMONY
- CLEAR
CADENCES,
PERFECT
CADENCES
THROUGHOUT
- CHROMATIC HARMONY
- MELODY
- REPETITION AND CONTRAST
- EXPOSITION: 1ST SUBJECT (TONIC KEY)
- EXPOSITION: 2ND SUBJECT (MODULATES TO
RELATIVE MAJOR - Bb MAJOR)
- WELL BALANCED PHRASES: PERIODIC PHRASING (FOUR
BAR PHRASING) QUESTION AND ANSWER PHRASES
- MELODIC SEQUENCES
- SCALIC MELODIES
- SOME CHROMATIC MELODIES
- TEMPO
- MOLTO ALLEGRO - VERY FAST
- RHYTHM AND METRE
- IN 4/4 TIME
- 1ST SUBJECT USES
SHORTER, CROTCHET AND
QUAVER FIGURES
- 2ND SUBJECT - LONGER
NOTES AND A MORE
RELAXED FEEL
- STRUCTURE
- SONATA FORM: 3
SECTIONS - EXPOSITION,
DEVELOPMENT AND
RECAPITULATION
- EXPOSITION: FIRST SUBJECT, BRIDGE
PASSAGE, AND SECOND SUBJECT
INTRODUCED (IT THEN REPEATS)
- DEVELOPMENT: DEVELOPS IDEAS
FROM THE EXPOSITION. MODULATES
THROUGH VARIOUS KEYS - AVOIDING
THE TONIC AND DOMINANT.
- RECAPITULATION: BALANCES THE
OPENING EXPOSITION. RECAPS
SUBJECT 1 IN THE TONIC KEY.
FOLLOWED BY A BRIDGE SECTION AND
THE SECOND SUBJECT IN THE TONIC.
- CODA
- DYNAMICS
- MAINLY - P (QUIET) AND F (LOUD)
- SF - SFORTSANDO
- SOME CRESCENDOS