Compound Sentence

Compound Sentence

Compound Sentence

Compound sentence

Haydn in particular but many other classical composers have experimented with different musical syntaxes. Mozart was particularly fluent in that practice. He created sonatas which do not respond to the scholastic cluttering of themes and their consecutive interpolation.

The use of compound themes is widely seen in Haydn and Mozart. The creation of the monothematic sonata testifies to the necessity of a stronger theme structure. A format that can allow a single theme to take the place of two, as it was expected in the standard b-thematic sonata.

We can find compound themes of 4 different types: three variances of compound periods and the compound sentence.

The compound sentence uses for its presentation phrase the compound basic idea. The c.b.i. is used in the same way b.i. was used within simple sentences.

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