MUSI 112: Listening to Music
Lecture 09 - Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven. A brief foray into the formal characteristics of contemporary popular music is used to launch this lecture on musical form. After a discussion of the "verse-chorus" form often used in popular music, Professor Wright proceeds to take students into the realm of classical music, focusing particularly on ternary form and sonata-allegro form. Throughout his detailed explanation of sonata-allegro form, he also elaborates upon some harmonic concepts describing, for example, the relationship between relative major and minor keys. This lecture draws its musical examples from 'N Sync, Mozart, and Beethoven. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 09 - Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Verse-Chorus Form in Popular Music |
| [00:05:56] | 2. Introduction to Form in Classical Music |
| [00:12:20] | 3. Ternary Form |
| [00:18:00] | 4. The Sonata-Allegro Form in Mozart's "A Little Night Music" |
| [00:36:20] | 5. The Sonata-Allegro Form in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony |
| References |
| Lecture 9 - Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven Instructor: Professor Craig Wright. Resources: Music 09 - Credits [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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