Sonata Form Table

3 points per answer

Topic mm. Description
EXPOSITION
(optional)  motto  slow introduction
Theme Group I What sort of phrase structure is used for the theme? (account for every measure)
(Main theme)

What cadence does it end on? (Give key, type & m.#)
Transition Does the transition have any (or all) of these features?
 rhythmic agitation
 brief tonicizations of chords other than tonic. (v/ii, viio/vi, etc.)
 expanded cadences.
 passage work (repeated scales & arpeggios)
 modulation to the parallel mode (ex. C Major becomes C minor)

What cadence does it end with? (Give key: type & m.#)
Theme Group II What sort of phrase structure is used for this theme? (account for every measure)
(Subordinate Theme)

What cadence does it end with? (Give key: type & m.#)
Closing section Does the closing section have any (or all) of these features?
 tonic pedal
 scale degree 1 prolonged in the top voice.
 a decrescendo at the very end and/or a soft ending.
DEVELOPMENT
Is there a key that occurs more often during the dev?
(optional) Does the extra music before the core have any (or all) of these features?
 recalls the main theme,
 recalls the motto,
 repeats the closing theme,
 introduces a brand new theme.
Core Identify which bars from the exposition are used as a subject for the core.
mm. ______________________
Describe patterns you hear in the imitation.

Retransition What evidence supports calling this a retransition?

 standing on the V
 fragmentation into smaller & smaller units.
 other (write your description here)

RECAPITULATION
(optional)  motto
Theme Group I Normal Modified
(Main theme)  Theme 1 is the same length in  the theme is restated in the exposition,
the recap as it is in the but it is not restated in the recap’.
exposition. The recapitulated  harmonic sequences occur that were not
Theme 1 is either exactly the included in the exposition.
same or it is similar to the  deletion of tonic cadence. The cadence
exposition version. that ended TG I in the exposition does not
occur in the recapitulation.
Transition Does the transition have any (or all) of these features?
 Theme 1 was modified by a deletion of its cadence, so one cannot tell where
TG 1 ends and the transition begins because no tonic cadence divides them.
 There is new material in this transition (give mm. #)
 Exposition materials are (a) deleted or (b) compressed.

Theme Group II Which of these statements is true?

(Subordinate Theme)  Theme 2 is the same length in the recap as it is in the exposition. The
recapitulated Theme 2 is either exactly the same or it is similar to the exposition
version.
 Theme 2 is longer in the recap
(give mm# for the added measures)
 Theme 2 is shorter in the recap
(give mm# for the expo measures that do not return)
Closing Section & Coda Does this section have any (or all) of these features?
 recalls ideas from Theme 1  recalls motto
 recapitulates a new theme that is heard only in the development
 builds a big crescendo or it has a loud ending.