•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