understand because comes up everywhere and I mean everywhere and that’s because it’s one of the most brilliant ways of developing your al ideas in a wellrounded and dramatically effective way it seems to Have. have developed from binary form and you can start hearing it from the of Joseph Haydn onwards so Let’s. let’s go and I’ll presume you’ve seen my s on al seeds and tonality I’ll give you a quick overview of Sonata form and then we’ll go into a little more detail with a famous example Sonata form can be divided into three Main.

main parts first the exposition Which.

which basically presents or Exposes.

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both will be in the HOME key and so the tonal conflict from the exposition is resolved the Reason