This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...Subject re-appeared, near the close of the second part, transposed to the key in which the movement originally started.t The Allegro was followed by a Slow Movement--either Andante, or Adagio--the form of which was less rigidly defined. The third movement was a Minuet, consisting of two Strains, followed by a Trio, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...Subject re-appeared, near the close of the second part, transposed to the key in which the movement originally started.t The Allegro was followed by a Slow Movement--either Andante, or Adagio--the form of which was less rigidly defined. The third movement was a Minuet, consisting of two Strains, followed by a Trio, consisting of two more, after which the Minuet was repeated, in the manner of a Da Capo. The Finale was a Rondo, generally of lighter and more playful character than the Allegro, and differing from it, also, in that, after each of its clauses, the orginal Subject was repeated, in full, in the original key. A work, composed, upon this regular, and now generally received plan, for one or two Solo Instruments, is called par excellence, a Sonata. When the resources of a full Orchestra are called into play, the composition is entitled a Symphony. When a Solo Instrument is accompanied by the full Orchestra, it Those who have had the good fortune to hear this delightful Sonata interpreted by Clara Schumann will not readily forget the effect it is capable of producing. f When the Movement was in the Minor Mode, the Second Subject usually made its first appearance in the Relative Major. is called a Concerto. When the first Movement only is employed, it is called an Overture; and, in that form, is used as the Instrumental Prelude to an Opera, an Oratorio, or other grand choral work. Not only do we trace the influence of the "Sonata-Form " in all the great instrumental works produced by Haydn himself, but we find it openly adopted by every one of his successors, and forming the basis of every Overture, Quartett, Sonata, Symphony, or other similar composition that has ever been given to the world, since the beginning of the present century. Not tha...
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