Sonata Form 1

This chapter opens with a discussion of structural prototypes—the possible forms of the fundamental structure in both the major and minor modes—in relation to sonata form. This is followed by a detailed examination of the first and third movements of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in F major, K. 280. The chapter ends with an examination of the exposition from Beethoven’s Piano Trio in C minor, op. 1, no. 3.