1st Movements

Intro

• Sonata Allegro

• 2 subjects → first = assertive and second = lyrical

• bold opening statement

• optional slow intro

• tonality = conventional relationships between sections

Stamitz Op3 No2

• no intro

• starts with bold hammer strokes

• 1st + 2nd subjects are normal

• sonata allegro

• uses circle of fifths to modulate = normal

• 3 minutes long

Haydn 104

• intro → tonality = not so conventional

• monothematic → split into motifs

• length = 8.5 minutes

• sonata allegro

• motif x = bar 19

Mozart 25

• opening theme = bold / assertive octaves

• 2nd subject is lyrical

• 2nd subject = relative major = normal

• length = 7.5 minutes

Mendelssohn Italian

• 6/8 = weird

• 1st + 2nd subjects = both lyrical

• 3rd subject = weird (bar 225)

• false reprise at bar 285 cuts development into 2 sections

• long coda = elongation of sonata form

• length = 10.5 minutes

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique

• programmatic

• sonata allegro

• very ling intro + no bold statement

• allegro has idee fiz which structures the rest of the symphony

• length = 16 minutes

Tchaik 6

• intro + sonata allegro

• 3 subjects

• dark instrumentation

• allegro = viola theme

• length = 18 minutes

Mahler 1

• intro + sonata allegro

• programmatic

• intro = interrupted 5x by piu mosso fanfare

• length = 16 minutes

Order

• Haydn 104

• Mozart 25

• Mendelsohn Italian

• Berlioz Symphony Fantastique

• Tchaik 6

• Mahler 1