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CHAPTER

Sonata Form

9

Let's Practice 9.12
Mozart, Piano Sonata in G, K. 283
second movement, 24–39 (R=½N)

  1. yes; it loses its PAC; rather it ends with a deceptive cadence (middle of m. 27), which redirects the music toward the subdominant
  2. by beginning in the subdominant, it can replicate the sharp-side shift of the exposition and thus end on a HK: HC.
  3. no
  4. it begins immediately following the cadence in m. 37 by referencing main-theme material, structured as a consequent phrase (ending with a PAC), thus compensating for the lack of cadence in the recapitulation's main theme

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