Sonata Form: The Tonal Plot
Sonata form is a tonal argument, not a set of labelled boxes. What matters is which key you are in, and how the music gets home again.
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Form
Phrases, periods and large-scale designs: how a piece of music tells you where you are.
Form is how a piece tells you where you are. The articles here treat large-scale design as a tonal argument — what a section promises, what it withholds, and where it resolves — rather than as a diagram to be memorised.
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