Sonata-form : recapitulation and coda

Year Published: 1959

Creator: WNET/13 Indiana University Audio-Visual Center

Format: 16mm

Description: Still with the Beethoven Eroica movement as an example, the Recapitulation of sonata=form is shown to be a more or less exact representation of the Exposition, with the one basic difference that the second subject and all the themes it contains, now appear in the tonic or home key (just like the first subject). The remainder of the movement (after the Recapitulation) is a superb instance of a Beethovian Coda – a vast expansion of the simple “tail piece” first mentioned in Program VIII. Here the Coda is practically a second Development section, in which the composer draws his themes together (including the episode theme from the Development), still transforming and manipulating them, and builds them up to a forceful, clinching close.

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