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Assignment Request:
JUST ANALYSIS THE FIRST MOVEMENT OF SCHUBERT ARPEGGIONE
Schubert, Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821
I. Make a complete form diagram of the piece. On the diagram be sure to include the macro divisions into Exposition,
Development, Recapitulation, etc., and also the more micro divisions into themes (i.e., P, TR, S, etc.). In addition to themes,
your diagram should also include keys and major authentic cadences, even for the development section. Do not forget
measure numbers!
Please also turn in a copy of the first page of the score with Roman numerals beneath all the chords from m. 110.
The following questions are to be taken as prompts for your prose essay, which can be structured any way you choose. The
essay should be between three and four pages in length. You will not be able to address all of these, but try to address as
many as you can—you will choose what’s relevant to your paper.
Exposition:
Mention the chromaticism that appears in mm. 610
(you will have completed a harmonic analysis of these measures!).
Is there anything unusual about the Pzone?
Where is TR, and to what key does it modulate? (Bonus: where is the MC?)
What harmonic strategy undergirds the presentation of the S theme?
How many times does the listener hear S?
Where are there evaded cadences? What effect does that have on your hearing of the piece? (Bonus: describe why the
PAC at m. 53 does not have the closural effect that the first PAC in Sspace
usually does.) How, exactly, does Schubert
evaded the rest of the cadences? Where does closure of Sspace
actually occur?
Development:
What keys are articulated in the development, and how are those keys related to the main tonality of A minor?
What themes are treated in the development? With what thematic modules does it open? What theme is treated in mm. 87
forward?
What are the harmonies in mm. 812?
What progression occurs in mm. 914?
What chord occurs in mm. 95? Does it resolve as it “should”?
What chord occurs in m. 109? Does it resolve as it “should”?
Where does RT begin and end? Is any part of it worthy of comment?
Recapitulation:
