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What is Sonata Form?

Sonata Form is a type of musical structure in 3 main parts (Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation), it is one of the most popular musical structures traditionally used by composers. The first section i...
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Answered by Michael B. • Music tutor
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Examine the flying theme from ET by John Williams and highlight how this piece represents flight.

The flying theme from ET shows flight through the ascending motif, first raising by a 5th in bar 8, then an octave in bar 10 and finally a minor 6th in bar 12. The use of the major key also highlights the ha...
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Describe the Free fantasia style used by C.P.E Bach in the late 18th Century.

Free Fantasia as a style became highly popular in the late 18 th Century, with C. P. E. Bach being a prominent composer withint this style. However, he wrote very little upon this style and rarely discussed ...
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Describe ritornello form and give an example of where it is used

Ritornello form was used most predominantly in the Baroque era. The term ‘ritornello’ translates as ‘little return’ and is a passage of music that reoccurs throughout a piece; these passages are separated by...
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How did the first movement of Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ rework the formal conventions of the classical symphony?

Though composed within a sonata form (exposition-development-recapitulation-coda) analogous to the first movements of Haydn and Mozart symphonies, the first movement of the ‘Eroica’ is unusually complex for ...
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Answered by Ed W. • Music tutor
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