All Students preparing for Grade exams are recommended to use the Hofnotes on-line training pages to practise for the aural tests.

At higher grades you must be able to discuss with the examiner musical features such as texture, form, style, and period of a piece of music. My own web pages to help with these parts of the test at Grade 5+ and at GCSE are available here!

Ternary Form

Ternary form is often found in the first movement of a sonata, symphony or quartet.

It has three important elements:

exposition
development
recapitulation

These are less complex and developed than in sonata form

Scarlatti Sonata No

Scarlatti's Piano Sonata No. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx is a good example. Listen to or play the first movement now.

If you can, note down the counter time for when the new subjects appear, and the main sections start.

Play through the 1st movement of Clementi's sonata in C major at the piano. In which key is the first subject?

In which key does the second subject start and end?

What other keys does it pass through?

Last updated on: 03/01/2012