Italian symphony

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Movement 1

Form: Sonata

Allegro vivace

Key: A major

Dynamics:

Rhythm:

Structure:

Melody:

Instrumentation:

- woodwind and pizzicato strings

Texture:

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- Airy texture

Harmony:

He was fond of using the diminished 7th chord, often to create effective moments; and also, use of the extended dominant (i.e. b9/7)

Has impressions in the subdominant of D minor, of a religious procession Mendelssohn witnessed in Naples

Page 2

Movement 2