The Sonata: An Introduction

🎶 Support the channel: 🎼 🎼 0:00 Introduction 0:41 I: Etymology & Overview 2:33 II: In the Beginning … 8:07 III: The Rise of “Sonata Form” 16:27 IV: Classical Sonata Form 30:33 V: Form, Principle, or Theory? 34:26 VI: What About the Other Movements? 38:52 VII: The Romantic Sonata 50:53 VIII: (Post)modern Sonatas 57:18 IX: A Personal Conclusion 📚 Sources/further reading: “The Sonata (Cambridge Introductions to Music)” by Thomas Schmidt-Beste (Cambridge University Press, 2011) “Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late Eighteenth-Century Sonata” by James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy (Oxford University Press, 2006) “Sonata Fragments: Romantic Narratives in Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms” by Andrew Davis (Indiana University Press, 2017) “Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Form and Cycle in Single-Movements Instrumental Works by L