6/16 For example, Mozart, pianoforte sonata. No. 13, first movement:-- _Principal Theme_, with _Transition_ (measures 1-27). In the Recapitulation, the arrangement is thus:-- _Principal Theme, Codetta I, Subordinate Theme, Codetta II_; that is, the first codetta appears before, instead of after, the Subordinate theme. MIXTURE OF CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS .-- This process tends to affiliate the two distinct classes of larger or higher forms, whose respective characteristics were explained and compared at the beginning of Chapter XVI. |