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The Western Classical Tradition (Area of Study A)
Quick questions on Haydn Symphony No. 104 'London': set work analysis - WJEC A-Level Music
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What is second movement?Show answer
The second movement is a lyrical Andante in G major (the subdominant), song-like and graceful, providing repose after the weighty first movement. It explores its melody with variation and decoration, moves to contrasting keys (including darker minor episodes) for drama, and returns to its serene opening. The texture is largely homophonic, with the strings singing the melody and woodwind adding colour.
What is model paragraph?Show answer
Haydn frames the first movement with a contrast that the whole symphony then resolves. The Adagio introduction in D minor is grave and ceremonial, its dotted rhythms and falling lines casting a shadow that the bright D major Allegro dispels. The exposition is economical: rather than inventing a wholly new second subject, Haydn reworks his first subject in the dominant, a monothematic stroke that gives the movement unity.
What is vague orchestration?Show answer
Name the Classical forces and Haydn's tutti-versus-chamber contrasts rather than saying "the orchestra plays".
What is q1?Show answer
In what key and tempo does the first movement's introduction begin? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is unusual about the second subject of the first movement? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Analyse how Haydn uses sonata form and the orchestra in the first movement, with reference to a passage. [20 marks]
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