
Form: Rondo, Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations (continued)
Yale professor Craig Wright continues his survey of musical form in this session of Listening to Music (MUSI 112), preparing students for an upcoming concert featuring Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven. He walks through theme and variations using Brahms as the central example, then turns to rondo form, illustrating it with Vivaldi's Spring concerto and Mozart's horn concerto before the pieces actually on the program. The lecture closes with an unexpected example of rondo structure drawn from a song by Sting, using popular music to make the classical form concrete. Chapters move from concert introduction through variation analysis to rondo analysis and conclusion, giving the lecture a clear structure for students following along with recorded excerpts played in class.