The Movement’s Second Half
This chapter explores the form of the second half of Galant movements—that is, the part of the movement that corresponds to what modern terminology often labels as the development plus recapitulation. Much as was done with the examination of expositions in the previous chapters, the form of the movement’s second half is examined with the aid of journey metaphors, along with the help of concepts discussed by eighteenth-century theorists such as Heinrich Christoph Koch. Although sometimes the motions toward the large-scale resting points during the second half of a movement give rise to what can fairly be characterized as a metaphorical “development space” or “recapitulation space,” many Galant movements resist such characterizations. As a result, viewing the form, a movement’s second half through the vantage point of journey metaphors helps shed light on certain standard features——such as the so-called “false recapitulation” or the “secondary development”—that pose difficulties for formal analytic approaches that rely more heavily on container metaphors.