Nicholas Cook - Analyzing Music in Sonata Form
Questions from chapter eight of
Cook, N. (1987) A guide to Musical Analysis, London J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Braziller.
- How unified is the material presented in the exposition?
- Are there obvious contrasts of thematic and non-thematic materials?
- Are the themes strongly contrasted with one another?
- How is the transition between the structurally opposed areas of the exposition achieved?
- Does the modulation serve more to link or to separate the structural keys?
- Does the second thematic area simply coincide with the move to the new key or does it serve to clinch amove that has already been made?
- What is the tonal and thematic plan of the development?
- Does it fall into clearly marked sections?
- When does the home key begin to be clearly implied?
- Is the tonic used in the development and if so, how?
- Is there new material?
- Is there a caesura reflecting the beginning of the recapitulation?
- Is this projected as a point of structural resolution?
- Where is the point of highest tension?
- How is the recapitulation altered against the exposition and why?
- Is there important material which is not finally stated in the tonic?
- If there is a coda, what brings it about?