His later sonata-form compositions in all instrumental genres when they follow the rough traditional scheme of exposition, development, and recapitulation modify it substantially.
The basic elements of sonata form are three: exposition, development, and recapitulation, in which the musical subject matter is stated, explored or expanded, and restated.
Nevertheless, the vocabulary of exposition, development, recapitulation, transition, and so on is capable of wide application and will simplify the remainder of the present section.
The first movement loosely follows a sonata structure of exposition, development, and recapitulation, and it appropriates themes and rhythms from the popular "Charleston".
Second, the piece, which lasts half an hour without a break, manages to follow two structures simultaneously: viewed from one perspective, it unfolds in three (or maybe four) movements; seen a different way, the whole piece is a single vast movement, following the classical sonata model (exposition, development, recapitulation).
Musicologist Ortrun Landmann has suggested that the formal scheme for Part II, after the orchestral introduction, is a sonata plan without the recapitulation, consisting of exposition, development and conclusion.
There is no exposition or development of themes, no clear formal structure.
Normally a cadenza comes only after exposition and development have prepared the audience for an eruption of virtuosity.
But what many listeners still find challenging is the lack of discernible exposition and development, as in "Rothko Chapel".
It's no coincidence that the story told in the sonata form I studied as a junior violinist goes like this: exposition, transition, development, recapitulation, coda.
Identifying Wolff as an academic philosopher is helpful in understanding the exposition and development of his philosophical views.
