Classical Forms

Binary, ternary, rondo and theme-and-variations laid out as diagrams, sonata form in three acts, and where each form turns up across a symphony.

What's inside

• Binary, ternary, rondo, and theme-and-variations, each diagrammed as a sequence of labelled sections
• Sonata form in three acts — exposition, development, recapitulation — with the keys and what happens in each
• Where each form turns up across the four movements of a symphony
• How to hear a form while listening, and why every large form is small shapes nested inside each other