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  2. Sonata theory - Wikipedia

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    Sonata Theory understands the rhetorical layout of a sonata as progressing through a set of action spaces and moments of "structural punctuation." [8] These action spaces largely correlate with the "themes" or "groups" of the sonata, though each space is differentiated primarily by the unique generic goal that the music pursues within that particular space.

  3. List of music theorists - Wikipedia

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    Gender, race, and sexuality in music theory. Popular music [219] Suzannah Clark: born 1969 Music theory and natural order from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century (2001) Franz Schubert, history of music theory, medieval music [220] Dmitri Tymoczko: born 1969 A Geometry of Music (2010) Proposed framework for considering tonality [221]

  4. Entropy (order and disorder) - Wikipedia

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    This commonplace notion of order is described quantitatively by Landau theory. In Landau theory, the development of order in the everyday sense coincides with the change in the value of a mathematical quantity, a so-called order parameter. An example of an order parameter for crystallization is "bond orientational order" describing the ...

  5. History of sonata form - Wikipedia

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    Sonata form is one of the most influential ideas in the history of Western classical music. Since the establishment of the practice by composers like C.P.E. Bach , Haydn , Mozart , Beethoven , and Schubert and the codification of this practice into teaching and theory , the practice of writing works in sonata form has changed considerably.

  6. Sonata form - Wikipedia

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    The sonata form (also sonata-allegro form or first movement form) is a musical structure generally consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation. It has been used widely since the middle of the 18th century (the early Classical period ).

  7. Entropy as an arrow of time - Wikipedia

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    According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was initially very hot with energy distributed uniformly. For a system in which gravity is important, such as the universe, this is a low-entropy state (compared to a high-entropy state of having all matter collapsed into black holes , a state to which the system may eventually evolve).

  8. Sonata rondo form - Wikipedia

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    The simplest kind of sonata rondo form is a sonata form that repeats the opening material in the tonic at the end of the exposition and recapitulation sections. [A B' A] exp [C"] dev [A B A] recap By adding in these extra appearances of A, the form reads off as AB'AC"ABA , hence the alternation of A with "other" material that characterizes the ...

  9. Piano sonata - Wikipedia

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    Although various composers in the 17th century had written keyboard pieces which they entitled "Sonata", it was only in the classical era, when the piano displaced the earlier harpsichord and sonata form rose to prominence as a principle of musical composition, that the term "piano sonata" acquired a definite meaning and a characteristic form.