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#9 Maestro Alexander Shelley: The Architecture of Music

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Structure of a Symphony in Sonata Form

The architecture of a movement in sonata form, which is what pretty much all symphonies are written in. The themes and the little transitions are very readily recognizable. And if one's interested in kind of testing out what i've just described, that would be a good place to start. Just listen to it, or mozart, and sayk, that theme i recognize. I don't rellyknow, wha's happening now? K, there's a tune. Oh. Er, so that's an example of architecture, what what's called sonata form in music. But as a general rule, pretty much every work in the classical canon is in some kind of

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