Mozart listening example a string quartet (a composition for two violins, viola and cello) the Quartet in E-flat Major, K 428 (one of the 6 “Haydn” quartets) 1 st movement – sonata form, starts with the exposition:
“mysterious” theme, in octaves 4 -bar phrase 3 -bar phrase full texture & harmony “turn” 4 -bar phrase repeated note & scale fragment
simple scale under lots of ornaments this one sticks around
“turn” returns with repeats fragment of repeated note idea?
cadence in second theme key 2 nd theme unexpectedly harmonically ambiguous 15 th time we’ve heard this
lots of ½ steps in this closing theme
exposition repeats or goes on?
repeat of the exposition 4 -bar phrase 3 -bar phrase full texture & harmony 4 -bar phrase repeated note & scale fragment
simple scale under lots of ornaments this one sticks around
fragment of repeated note idea?
cadence in second theme key 2 nd theme unexpectedly harmonically ambiguous 30 th time we’ve heard this
lots of ½ steps in this closing theme
this time, we’ll go on to the. . .
development section opening idea in new key a bit of canon main focus – shifting harmony