Quick questions on The development of the symphony 1750 to 1900: form, orchestra and style - WJEC A-Level Music

Sonata form, the structure of the first movement (and often the finale), is the central design of the Classical period: an exposition (first subject in the tonic, a transition modulating to a second subject in a related key, usually the dominant or relative major), a development (the material is fragmented, sequenced and put through distant keys), and a recapitulation (both subjects return, now in the tonic). A coda often rounds it off.

The four-movement plan is the constant thread from 1750 to 1900, but composers stretched it as expression grew. In Haydn's London Symphony the design is crisp: a slow D minor introduction gives way to a sonata-form D major allegro whose two subjects are clearly articulated, and the minuet is a real, if stylised, dance. In Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony the same skeleton is present, but the proportions and colours are Romantic: the first movement bursts with energy over a buzzing accompaniment, the third movement is a graceful, horn-coloured piece rather than a courtly minuet, and the finale is a whirling saltarello in the tonic minor, an Italian dance that gives the work its programmatic flavour.

Name the added instruments (trombones, tuba, harp, cor anglais) rather than just saying the orchestra got bigger.

Name the four movements of a Classical symphony in order. [4 marks]

Name two ways the orchestra grew in the Romantic period. [2 marks]

Discuss how the symphony developed between the Classical and Romantic periods, with reference to the set works. [20 marks]