How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition Season 1 Episode 25 Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 3

Two additional sonata-allegro form movements are analyzed and discussed: the first movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 88 in G Major, and the overture to Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. Regarding the overture, we examine the long, tragic introduction that precedes the brilliant and comic sonata-allegro form and question its meaning here at the onset of the opera.