Finales

• Haydn no.8


  Haydn creates a rhythmic unison with descending scalic sequences like falling raindrops. The texture moves from one instrument to the tutti playing together, creating interest and suggesting a storm.
• Stamitz in D


  3/8 opens with Mannheim rocket (ascending arpeggio theme over tonic pedal) and features short oboe and horn solos
• Mozart 41


  4th movement fugue ww play fugal parts. Horns and bassoon play Gloria motif at start but then brass play more typical fanfare figures rather than one of the fugal subjects.

  counterpoint and fugal texture, stretto
• Haydn horn signal


  This movement is a theme with 7 variations showcasing the Esterhazy musicians, including avariation for four hornsand anunusual double bass solo
• Mozart 40


  opens with a Mannheim rocket features an intense chromatic Sturm und Drang in a 2/2. The development section briefly destroys the rhythm, meter, and tonality with a modulation that anticipates the Romantic era.
• Beethoven 9


  Allegro, andante, allegro

  SATB soloists + choir

  intricate rondo finale

  dissonant opening followed by episodes from prior movts

  cyclic ideas which are 'dismissed' by recit cello/db
• Schubert 9


  WW's recall part of the 'ode to joy' - link to how schubert admired Beethoven
• Haydn 104


  cello and horn open with folksy D drone to a monothematic sonata form