17 - The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart

• What is the recapitulation?

  In SONATA FORM, the third main section, which restates the material from the EXPOSITION, normally all in the TONIC.
• What is ternary form?

  A FORM in three main sections, in which the first and third are identical or closely related and the middle section is contrasting, creating an ABA pattern.
• What is minuet and trio form?

  FORM that joins two BINARY-FORM MINUETS to create an ABA pattern, where A is the minuet and B the TRIO.
• What is a trio?

  A piece for three players or singers. Or the second of two alternating DANCES, in the Classical-era MINUET AND TRIO FORM. Or the second main section of a MARCH.
• What is rondo form?

  Musical FORM in which the first or main section recurs, usually in the TONIC, between subsidiary sections or EPISODES.
• What is a rondo?

  A piece or MOVEMENT in RONDO FORM.
• What is a scherzo?

  A joking or particularly fast MOVEMENT in MINUET AND TRIO FORM.
• What is a serenade?

  A semidramatic piece for several singers and small ORCHESTRA, usually written for a special occasion.
• What is sonata-rondo?

  A FORM that blends characteristics of SONATA FORM and RONDO FORM. One frequent structure is ABACABA, in which A and B correspond to the first and second THEMES of SONATA FORM and B appears first in the DOMINANT and returns in the TONIC.
• What is exoticism?


  Nineteenth century trend in which composers sought to evoke the perceived glamour and strangeness of distant lands and foreign cultures.