Struggle, Then Victory
In the nineteenth century people had a certain expectation of what a symphony should sound like. Listeners were accustom to clear structures and emotional constraint like symphonies composed by Mozart and Haydn. Symphonies had four movements. The first movement in allegro form had four to five parts within that movement. The first part was the exposition which introduces the first theme, second theme and the closing theme. The second part is the development which is more dramatic and can have any or all themes. Also, the development contains a retransition that takes us into the third part that is called a recapitulation. It is a repeat of the exposition. The coda is the last part and it announces to the listener that the movement is ending. About half of symphonies have an introduction which is never repeated and is intended to put the question in the audiences mind, “what am I about to listen to”? The second movement is in adagio form. The......
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