The reader is urged to consult any of the minuets to be found in the string quartets or symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. These popular short movements are so available in arrangements for the piano that it is not thought necessary to incorporate one here.
SUGGESTIONS FOR COLLATERAL READING.
Grove's Dictionary: articles "Minuet," "Sonata," and "Symphony." Shedlock: "The Pianoforte Sonata." Mason: "Beethoven and His Forerunners."
FOOTNOTES:
[20] In Bach's English Suites a Prelude is placed before the Allemande.
[21] See the Minuet in Haydn's piano sonata in E-flat (No. 3 in Schirmer edition) and the Minuet in Mozart's well known piano sonata in A-major (with the Theme and Variations).
CHAPTER VIII
SONATA-FORM I.
I. COMPOSITE NATURE OF THE SONATA.
Undoubtedly the most important of all musical forms to-day is the sonata, as will easily be recognized if we remember that not only the pieces which bear this name as a title, but also the numerous symphonies, overtures, concertos, and trios, quartets, quintets, and so on, are examples of this form. The symphony is simply a sonata, on a large scale, for orchestra; the overture is a similar piece for orchestra, in one movement; the concerto is, as it were, a symphony with a solo instrument emphasized or placed in the foreground; trios, quartets, quintets, etc., are sonatas for various groups of string and wind instruments. Thus it will be seen that the bulk of all instrumental music is cast in this ever available and useful form of the sonata.