Vienna is the European center for music during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

•Vienna is the European center for music during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

•Haydn will eventually retire there

•Mozart will move there to try to make a living

•Beethoven will also move there to study and live.

Haydn’s Symphonic Form

•First movement - sonata allegro

•Very often, no second theme but rather a restatement of the original theme in the new key

•The “closing section” after theme 2 is sometimes a new theme

Haydn’s Symphonic Form

•Second movement

•Very commonly the Minuet & Trio, rather than the slow movement

Haydn’s Symphonic Form

•Third movement is often a Minuet and Trio

•The minuet is not a stately dance piece, but a symphonic work using a triple meter

•The trio often uses the woodwinds, which are commonly only support instruments

Haydn’s Symphonic Form

•The Finale eventually became the “crowning glory” of a Haydn symphony

•Commonly used folk or folklike themes.

•He could satisfy the sophisticated listener as well as the common folk from which he came.

Haydn’s Symphonic Form

•Finale - sonata rondo form.

•The diagram for Rondo form is

•ABACADABA etc.

Sonata Rondo Form

•In Sonata Rondo form, the A section is heard in the tonic key at the beginning of the Development

•AB AC AB

•The A section is heard regularly and in the tonic key

Sonata Cycle

•The four-movement plan found in symphonies.

•Fast, Slow, Dance-like, Fast