sonata-form

Updated: June 13, 2025

And if we care to search, we find quite a prototype in a song like "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel." Soon the phrase has a more familiar ring as it turns into a friendly major. But the real second theme comes in a solo tune on the flute, in the major, The whole of the first Allegro is thus woven of three melodious and characteristic themes in very clear sonata-form.

Philip H. Goepp - Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies