•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