As a character has traits, so a group of measures has attributes. The word "role" is suggestive if we take it to mean something like the character an actor plays. "When we listen to a Mozart piano sonata or a Haydn symphony, how do we know where we are from one moment to the next?" This question, posed on the dust jacket of this book, is answered in the intervening pages in two words: formal function.įormal function, introduced in the first of the book's four parts, concerns the role of a group of measures relative to the larger organization of a piece of music. ![]() Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
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