The Recapitulation Principal Subject returns (sometimes modified) Bridge Passage returns (sometimes modified) Second Subject returns in home key, or another related key (sometimes modified) Closing Section returns in home key (sometimes modified) Coda The Development section eventually leads back to the Recapitulation, which is where all the previous themes return. Listen to the return of the Principal Subject and the Bridge Passage: Click here to hear the example (MIDI File) Notice how the Bridge Passage is very different to the way it was in the Exposition. It's longer, more elaborate, and seems to lead into G minor rather that B flat major. Listen to the next section: Click here to hear the example (MIDI File) Notice how the Second Subject returns in the home key of G minor. This is followed by the return of the Closing Section, again in G minor. The movement rounds offwith a short Coda constructed with material from the Principal Subject. Now see how all of this fits together by listening to the entire movement WITH EXPOSITION REPEAT. Click here to listen to the first movement of Mozart's 40th symphony (MIDI File, 146k). Previous Page Back to Forms