Minor-Mode Sonata-Form Dynamics in Haydn's String Quartets. Hall, M. J. Haydn: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America, 2019.
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The predominance of major-mode works in the repertoire corresponds with the view that minor-mode works are exceptions to a major-mode norm. For example, Charles Rosen's Sonata Forms, James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy's Sonata Theory, and William Caplin's Classical Form all theorize from the perspective of a major-mode default. Although certain canonical minor-mode works have received sustained scholarly attention, minor-mode sonata style in general is less often studied. Despite their relatively fewer numbers, minor-mode works comprise a substantial corpus. Among the string quartets of Joseph Haydn, the minor mode is represented in every opus beginning with Op. 9; even Haydn's last unfinished quartet, “Op. 103,” was to be in the minor. The

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