MUSI 3380 Lecture Notes - String Quartet
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Forms were only building blocks for the composers: similar forms: fast, slow, fast. Fast, slow, slow, fast: sonata, string quartet, symphony. Hoboken cataloged all of haydn"s works by categorizing them: example, hob xv: category for keyboard trio. Theme and variations: theme (melody rounded binary) is always recognizable, harmonic structure the same. Binary forms, after every letter there is a cadence. 331: balanced binary: m. 1-4: a1, m. 5-8: a2, m. 9-12: b, m. 13-16: a2, m. 17-18: extended cadence, then every variation afterwards follows the same basic flow.
