Talk:Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven)

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Where do I begin... 1. "ternary form" is not a synonym for sonata-form. Minuets, for example, are often ternary forms but are not sonata forms. To use Thorpe-Davie's technology (in my opinion he makes a good case with existing works and they make a good case for it) a sonata-form is an open ternary form- a ternary form in which the first section ends (fairly firmly) in another key, rather than staying mostly in the same key throughout (even if it takes a quick phrase-turn to the dominant chord at the end. The drama created - or that should be created- with the help of the opposition of the one or more theme-groups is important here.) 2. The importance of the development section - as shown in, for instance, the sheer number of works by composers who knew what they were doing and who didn't really care if they quoted themes from the exposition or "put them through their paces"- is in getting from the key in which the first ("exposition", if one must...) section ended (or mostly ended, if there was a transition, of course...) back to the main key of the work- often but not always dramatically (and in this connection quoting and contrasting and transforming earlier themes, fugues, etc. etc. etc. are means, not the end.) This is debatable, of course... still, using terminology and assumptions (and based on assumptions) for which the exceptions (even by exceptionally good composers) are so numerous as to be the rules should I think be avoided generally... Schissel | Sound the Note! 20:33, 2 August 2013 (UTC)