sonata form
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the form of a movement, which consists of exposition and development and recapitulation
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Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.
And yet, even when writing so-called 'programme music, for example his Romeo and Juliet fantasy overture, he cast it in sonata form.
As the form evolved, the first movement may incorporate fanfare-like elements and took on the pattern of so-called "sonatina form" ( sonata form without a development section), and the slow section became more extended and lyrical.
As the form evolved, the first movement often incorporated fanfare-like elements and took on the pattern of so-called "sonatina form" ( sonata form without a development section), and the slow section became more extended and lyrical.
Brown, New Grove (1980), 18:628; Final, 424. (For more on this, please see Repetition below.) Structure Tchaikovsky struggled with sonata form.
In the book, McClary suggests that the sonata form (used in symphonies and string quartets) may be a sexist or misogynistic procedure that constructs of gender and sexual identity.