L3 - Structure

Lesson Objectives:

• To be aware that this is only one movement (section) from a three movement piece

• To understand the 3 part structure of Sonata Form

• To look at what happens in the exposition, development and recapitulation

• To look at how Beethoven ‘breaks the rules’ with choices of keys!

Before looking at the rest of the 1st movement, you must understand the structure of the 1st movement (following the 10 bar introduction)

This set work is only the first part of a 3 movement piece known as a sonata.

The 2nd movement is a beautiful slow one and the 3rd movement a fast Rondo.

One of the key features of a sonata is the structure of its 1st movement known as sonata form.

Sonata form is made up of three main sections.

Review Questions:

1) How many movements in Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata?

2) What is the structure of the 1^st movement after the 10 bar introduction?

3) What is the key of the 1^st movement?

4) What are the 3 main sections of sonata form called?

5) What are the four sections in the exposition called?

6) What key is the 1^st subject in?

7) What key does the 2^nd subject begin in?

8) What happens in the development?

9) What happens in the recapitulation and what key does the 2^nd subject begin in?

10) What does the movement end with?