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Crowning the Rhetorical Process of Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas

Example 6.1 - Sonata in G Major, Hob. XVI:40

a. "transition” between first and second movements

b. transition in the context of the first movement's last variation (mm. 73-end)

Example 6.2 - Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI:42, transition between first and second movements

Example 6.3 - Sonata in A Major, Hob. XVI:26, Menuet al rovescio

a. prima vista

b. practiced

Example 6.4 - Sonata in E-flat Major, Hob. XVI:49, first movement

a. first page turn in autograph (fig. 6.1)

b. whole exposition (transcribed from the autograph: table 6.1)

c. Johann Jakob Engel, Ideen zu einer Mimik (Berlin: 1785). “Fig.10.” Engraving of an actor in doubt (fig. 6.2)

Example 6.5 - Sonata in E Major, Hob. XVI:22, first movement

a. opening theme

b. three rhetorical moments in the development and recapitulation:

dubitatio & aversio
hyperbaton
suspensio

c. complete performance of first movement ------------------ download video

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