Mozart Sonata in G, K283 (1st mvt)

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Reduction with Measure Groups

Having worked on small sections in detail, we will now take a bird’s eye view of the exposition of this movement. More specifically, we will look at the way individual measures are grouped together into measure groups and suggest a way of counting these groups that will help you to feel the large-scale rhythmic motion of the piece. In addition, the reduction that follows serves as an outline that will be useful for testing your memory of the details of the score. In an Allegro tempo, we start to feel measures of 3/4 as compound measures of one beat. In...

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