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In the late 1700's and early 1800's the Baroque period gave way to the classical era, introducing many revolutionary new scientific discoveries and theories. This drastically changed the peoples social views and brought on the "age of enlightenment." With this change in social philosophy came changes in musical trends. One of the most important new trends of the time was a more common use of the sonata. During the Classical era, the sonata evolved into a more restricted role, and in doing so, embodied the new style of musical form for the time. The sonata originated in Italy and gradually gained popularity over the rest of Europe. During the Baroque period the sonata was composed of several dance movements, however, in the Classical era it changed to a fast-slow style movement, with each movement composed in one of four forms popular during the Classical period. These forms consisted of sonata-allegro, rondo, ternary, and theme and variations. Through history many characteristics of the sonata have remained unchanged; "most sonatas have been instrumental music, without voice parts, absolute music without program; concert or divisional music, without social function; sol
Though during the Classical era it was performed mostly by amateurs for a more modest audience, or simply for practice alone, the sonata was able to gain worldwide fame and play a key role in the development of Classical music. His sonatas gained popularity due to his frequent public concerts. Sonata translates as, "something played" as opposed to it close cousin, the cantata, which means "something sung". Paul: West Publishing Company, 1996. Mozart composed only one piece in E minor, "with its paired textures and hesitant wistful manner representing a world of delicate sensibility, its concluding minuet in particular, a rondo or an elegant, pathetic melody of a French cast with a gentle second episode in E major providing harmonic balm"(Plath 697). It has taken time for awareness of Clementi's contribution to the development of the sonata to be recognized. Clementi was an acclaimed composer known for his many keyboard pieces. Mozart noted that he designed the Andante to depict her. Bibliography Kerman, Joseph and Alan Tyson. The movements show advancements in structural integrity and a successful blending of the diverse techniques used in previous sonatas (Plantinga 487). "They are technically demanding and experimental in form. In 1802, Clementi published three large-scale sonatas.
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