Lecture - The Sonata Form : 3 August 21, 2009

Divertimento presents 'The Sonata Form:3' The concluding lecture of a three-part lecture series by Dr. Jayati Ghosh. The sonata form is considered the most important principle of musical form from the classical period well into music of the 20th century. As a formal model the sonata form is usually best exemplified in the first movements of multi-movement works, whether orchestral or chamber, and is thus also referred to frequently as 'first-movement form' or 'sonata-allegro form' (since the first movement in a three or four-movement cycle will typically be in allegro tempo). Originally the term (derived from the Italian word suonare, to sound on an instrument) meant a piece for playing, distinguished from cantata, a piece for singing. This purport of 'sonata' covers many pieces from the Baroque and mid-18th century that are not 'in sonata form'. Conversely, in the late 18th century or 'Classical' period, the title 'sonata' is typically given to a work composed of three or four movements. In her first two lectures Dr. Jayati Ghosh laid out the structure of the form, its component parts and its manifestations as seen in the works of composers from the classical and romantic periods. In this third and final lecture, Dr Jayati Ghosh follows the form as she develops upon earlier material, recaps earlier themes and achieves closure of the current discourse. Jayati Ghosh was educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and the University of Cambridge. Her 1984 doctoral thesis at Cambridge University was titled 'Non capitalist land rent: theories and the case of North India' under the supervision of T Byres. She is now Professor of Economics and also the current Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, India. Her specialities include globalization, international finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, and issues related to gender and development. She previously held positions at Tufts University and Cambridge, lecturing meanwhile at academic institutions throughout India. She is one of the founders of the Economic Research Foundation in New Delhi, a non-profit trust devoted to progressive economic research. (Selections of her columns from the Macroscan, the Foundation's outlet, will be published as Tracking the Macroeconomy.) She is also Executive Secretary of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS), a network of economists critical of the mainstream economic paradigm of neo-liberalism.

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