... Sonata, which is something very rare in a composition by Mozart. The Exposition begins in bars 32-55 and introduces the first subject in the key of D major. One of the most important parts of this subject is the vigorous cadences in bars 38 and 39. The second half of ... subject in bars 77-98. The second subject begins with an instrumentally asked question and is then answered twice with an indecisive reply. Part of a passage lapses into C major, but once again returns to A major in bar 99. From bar 99 to 120, there is a cadential section that reiterates ... begins in bar 193. The reca...

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... of music."" The music creates images in one's head that are impossible to express with words. Even when a composer names a symphony with a certain image, such "as the pastoral' symphony, or a passage in it as the scene by the brook, or another as the merry gathering of rustics,- it is merely a symbolical representation, and not an imitation of the music. These representations ... equipped to govern. Confucius made associations between modes of music and the workings of the universe. For example, "The mode of A is the symbol of the natural world . . . When the key of A loses its tonality...

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