Mozart's Piano Sonata
A mind map summarising the main features of Mozart's Piano Sonata in Bb. Particularly helpful for the extended questions in the edexcel examinations. Please feel free to ask questions/correct/suggest additions :)
- Created by: Nora
- Created on: 03-02-13 10:18
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- Mozart's Piano Sonata in Bb
- Instumentation
- Fortepiano: ability to play soft or loud; more delicate sound than a modern piano
- Subtle dynamics
- Pitch range relatively confined
- Could provide a softer left hand accompaniment
- Texture
- Mainly simple two part textures
- Broken chord accompaniment
- Alberti bass textures used (e.g. from bar 71)
- Dominant pedal towards end of Exposition
- Occasional monophony
- Occasional fuller chords (e.g. 6 note bar 23)
- Three part texture in bars 45-6
- Passages in 6ths (bar 102)
- Structure
- Sonata Form
- Exposition
- 1st Subject in Bb
- Transition modulates
- 2nd Subject in F
- Codetta in F
- Recapitulation
- As exposition but all subjects remain in the tonic
- Coda
- Development
- Modulates
- Exposition
- Sonata Form
- Tonality
- Functional tonality
- Begins in B flat major but modulates
- 2nd Subject in the dominant key (F major)
- Development moves quickly through many keys
- Including F minor which is unrelated
- Dominant preparation leads back to the tonic for the recapitulation
- Perfect cadences reinforce tonality
- Dominant pedal points add strength to perfect cadences (e.g. bars 57-8)
- Harmony
- Functional harmony
- Transition ends on an imperfect cadence
- Interrupted cadence (bar 83-4)
- Dominant 7ths used frequently (bar 3)
- Mainly root and first inversions (some 2nd inversions e.g. bar 75)
- Double appoggiatura cadence in bar 63
- Chromatic chords quite common
- Diminished 7th in bar 69
- Circle of 5ths in exposition and recapitulation
- Appoggiaturas
- Melody
- Some balanced phrases
- Chromatic notes
- Much is conjunct
- Broken chords appear occasionally
- Large leaps are rare (e.g. bar 43)
- Ornamental in style
- Occasional trills
- Turn in bar 62
- Instumentation
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