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
@Article{ hall2019-minor-mode,
author = {Hall, Matthew J.},
year = {2019},
title = {Minor-Mode Sonata-Form Dynamics in Haydn's String
Quartets},
abstract = {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},
journal = {Haydn: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North
America},
keywords = {music analysis},
mendeley-tags= {music analysis},
number = {1},
url = {https://www.rit.edu/affiliate/haydn/sites/rit.edu.affiliate.haydn/files/article_pdfs/Hall.MinorModeQuartet
for PDF.pdf},
volume = {9}
}