L. Poundie Burstein is Professor of Music at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His 2005 article "The Off-Tonic Return in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, and Other Works" was the winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Society of Music Theory in 2008, and he served as the President of the Society of Music Theory from 2013 to 2015. For many years, he performed extensively as a freelance pianist for comedy improvisation groups in the New York City area.

Burstein (Hunter College; Graduate Center, CUNY) has written a clever, idiosyncratic examination of the compositional procedures of the exposition sections of mid-18th-century sonata form movements. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Theories and TerminologyChapter 2: Formal Punctuations: Perioden and SätzeChapter 3: Hauptruhepuncte and HaupttheileChapter 4: Eighteenth-Century Approaches to Expositions: Riepel and KochChapter 5: Other Eighteenth-Century Approaches to Expositions: Galeazzi, Kollmann, and NeubauerChapter 6: Modern Terminology Part II: ExpositionsChapter 7: Standard Punctuation FormChapter 8: Two-Part ExpositionsChapter 9: Division Following the Home-Key DominantChapter 10: Division Following the New-Key DominantChapter 11: Expositions with Two Half-Cadential BreaksChapter 12: Division Following Arrival on TonicChapter 13: Uncommon Divisions Part III: The Entire MovementChapter 14: The Movement's Second HalfChapter 15: Analyses AppendixGlossaryIndex

L. Poundie Burstein is Professor of Music at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His 2005 article "The Off-Tonic Return in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, and Other Works" was the winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Society of Music Theory in 2008, and he served as the President of the Society of Music Theory from 2013 to 2015. For many years, he performed extensively as a freelance pianist for comedy improvisation groups in the New York City area.

Burstein (Hunter College; Graduate Center, CUNY) has written a clever, idiosyncratic examination of the compositional procedures of the exposition sections of mid-18th-century sonata form movements. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Theories and TerminologyChapter 2: Formal Punctuations: Perioden and SätzeChapter 3: Hauptruhepuncte and HaupttheileChapter 4: Eighteenth-Century Approaches to Expositions: Riepel and KochChapter 5: Other Eighteenth-Century Approaches to Expositions: Galeazzi, Kollmann, and NeubauerChapter 6: Modern Terminology Part II: ExpositionsChapter 7: Standard Punctuation FormChapter 8: Two-Part ExpositionsChapter 9: Division Following the Home-Key DominantChapter 10: Division Following the New-Key DominantChapter 11: Expositions with Two Half-Cadential BreaksChapter 12: Division Following Arrival on TonicChapter 13: Uncommon Divisions Part III: The Entire MovementChapter 14: The Movement's Second HalfChapter 15: Analyses AppendixGlossaryIndex

L. Poundie Burstein is Professor of Music at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His 2005 article "The Off-Tonic Return in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, and Other Works" was the winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Society of Music Theory in 2008, and he served as the President of the Society of Music Theory from 2013 to 2015. For many years, he performed extensively as a freelance pianist for comedy improvisation groups in the New York City area.

Burstein (Hunter College; Graduate Center, CUNY) has written a clever, idiosyncratic examination of the compositional procedures of the exposition sections of mid-18th-century sonata form movements. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Theories and TerminologyChapter 2: Formal Punctuations: Perioden and SätzeChapter 3: Hauptruhepuncte and HaupttheileChapter 4: Eighteenth-Century Approaches to Expositions: Riepel and KochChapter 5: Other Eighteenth-Century Approaches to Expositions: Galeazzi, Kollmann, and NeubauerChapter 6: Modern Terminology Part II: ExpositionsChapter 7: Standard Punctuation FormChapter 8: Two-Part ExpositionsChapter 9: Division Following the Home-Key DominantChapter 10: Division Following the New-Key DominantChapter 11: Expositions with Two Half-Cadential BreaksChapter 12: Division Following Arrival on TonicChapter 13: Uncommon Divisions Part III: The Entire MovementChapter 14: The Movement's Second HalfChapter 15: Analyses AppendixGlossaryIndex