Composing in Sonata Form - What is Sonata Form?

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Unravel the intricacies of Sonata Form, the preferred form for the first movement of sonatas, symphonies, and concertos. This lesson provides a comprehensive journey into the intricacies of the Sonata Form as well as potential options for alternative structures. We look at key details regarding key movement, repeated subjects, section, themes and the overall development of ideas.
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0:00 - Introduction to what is Sonata Form?
0:57 - Exposition section
8:57 - Development section
14:00 - Recapitulation section
19:12 - Conclusion
🎓 Composing in Sonata Form Course
Start writing extended pieces, develop material and learn how to compose music using Sonata Form. Sonata Form serves as the catalyst for honing your composition skills and nurturing your growth as a proficient music creator. This course begins with an explanation of Sonata Form - what it is and how it evolved during the Classical Period. We then analyse Sonata Form movements written by Mozart and Beethoven to discover how Classical Period composers wrote in this structure and in order to see how Sonata Form was to develop during the Romantic Period. The course also explains the possible variants within Sonata Form that composers might choose to explore. There follow two composition projects. In the first, we write the essentials of a Sonata Form movement in the Classical Period style, considering how to compose first and second subjects, how to develop and recapitulate material, when to include an introduction, a Coda and transition material. In the second, we write a more extended Sonata Form movement in a more contemporary style, learning to deal with the challenges of working with Sonata Form in an atonal environment.
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@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

Composing in Sonata Form - Get the rest of this course here! www.mmcourses.co.uk/p/composing-in-sonata-form-course

@maxjohn6012 3 ай бұрын

I've been reading Schoenberg's book on composition recently, and boy this is *so* much clearer than his chapter on sonata form! Many thanks, very tempted to sign up for the full course.

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

Thanks. Go for it!

@cacauceluque 3 ай бұрын

Yeah! I agree with you. 😊

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

Glad it’s useful. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@carmenl9280 17 күн бұрын

I wish someone had explained this to me so clearly years ago. I have played lots of sonatas without understanding their structure. Thank you so much!

@MusicMattersGB 17 күн бұрын

A pleasure. The rest of the course is available at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@scmontgomery 3 ай бұрын

Amazing video, as always. I appreciate the clear explanations. I have some new ideas thanks to this video

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

That’s great. The rest of the course is available at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@davidwhite2949 3 ай бұрын

I learned about a primary and secondary theme, so the idea of a first subject group, and 2nd subject group is intriguing.

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

Yes. It’s a way of extending your Sonata Form plan.

@pathaks1 3 ай бұрын

Sonata was a curiosity since I came to know thru a film long back. Your effort on explaining cleared my curiosity on it thru structure on three steps intrigue and assimilation : Exposition, Development and Re-capitulation from rhythm to melodic to harmonic to textural. Keep it up❤

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

Glad it’s helpful. The rest of the Sonata Form course is available at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@ronaldvulcain3953 18 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for your clear explanations.

@MusicMattersGB 18 күн бұрын

That’s most kind. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@cliveaitkenhead 3 ай бұрын

When Sonata Form was evolved there was no recorded music so maybe most people only heard pieces very occasionally and hence the particular value of exposition, development and recapitulation and also known form. I guess it was only the Emperors and Aristocracy who had their own organic CD players who they instructed to 'play it again Sam.' Yet another great video - thank you.

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

Good thought! Glad you enjoyed the video. The rest of the course is at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@willbohland3698 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@amirojaghi5824 3 ай бұрын

Hi mr green ,thanks a lot, if you write an example of simple sonata ,step by step , it Will be so helpful for me 💙🌹🙏

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

That’s exactly what I do in the Sonata Form course available at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@amirojaghi5824 3 ай бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB you are my best teacher ever 💙 respect from iran

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

That’s most kind.

@user-zp6kt6ni2l 3 ай бұрын

It would be great to have KZfaq videos of, for example, some of Mozart's sonatas with the distinct sections labeled (1st subject, 1st subject developed on the relative minor, etc.) in order to make them easier to follow.

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

We do that as part of the Sonata Form course at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@user-zp6kt6ni2l 3 ай бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB Thanks for the prompt reply.

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

@user-zp6kt6ni2l 😀

@bobsavage3317 3 ай бұрын

☮

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

😀

@pebbleschan6085 14 күн бұрын

A Swedish variation is Anni-Frid, Bjorn, Benny & Agnetha - ABBA. Mama Mia! 😂

@MusicMattersGB 14 күн бұрын

😀

@KarstenJohansson 3 ай бұрын

Can someone suggest a sonata that is easy to follow through this framework? I love Beethoven but his stuff is so complicated it's pretty hard to tell when a new theme isn't just a variation of a previous theme because he gets so adventurous. It's easy to detect parts of the Development sections because he really digs in there, but where they begin/end is complicated. Thankfully his Recapitulation is clear, even though he changes a lot even then, too... but it's still recognizable enough you know where you are. 😅 I'd like to write something in Sonata form, but really need something simpler to really get this framework down. It doesn't have to be great - it has to be clear.

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

Try a Mozart Sonata. Much easier to see.

@KarstenJohansson 3 ай бұрын

@@MusicMattersGB Good call. Thanks.

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

😀

@marcstauch3081 3 ай бұрын

Donald Tovey's classic 'Companion to the Beethoven Piano Sonatas' offers a helpful section-by-section analysis.

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

@marcstauch3081 Absolutely

@bucal53 3 ай бұрын

I've been a professional musician most of my life and have never seen a repeat-double bar as you have written. Why?

@MusicMattersGB 3 ай бұрын

Just about every Haydn and Mozart Piano Sonata first movements, for example, have repeat signs at the end of the Exposition.

@bucal53 3 ай бұрын

@@MusicMattersGBI completely understand that,sir , as I have played this music my whole life, but my point is that the repeat sign- double bar was written upside down on the screen that I saw. I was pointing that out in case you did not realize that. Nevertheless, I enjoy the content