Although the second theme (ST) group is a crucial landmark in Classical sonata form, where it is usually articulated with great clarity, in many instances its beginning cannot be so easily discerned, ...

Reviewed Work: Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata by James Hepokoski, Warren Darcy Music Analysis is the international forum for the ...

Tom Service tells stories in sonata form. This word sonata originally meant simply a piece of music. But over the course of music history "sonata form" came to mean something very specific and laid ...