Sonata in G – Beginning of Recapitulation

The recap starts with the 1st subject, which has a similar but busier motive structure as the 2nd subject. The plan is to eventually have the 2nd subject in the exposition appear as a dissonance compared to the first, with perhaps a lengthy transition to highlight the difference. The development would take the listener from that dissonance back to the first subject followed directly by the second in the tonic and, if I can pull it off, a resolution. The whole movement is wrapped up with a coda. Here I am learning from Rosen’s “Sonata Forms”, third chapter, where he describes the difference between sonata and binary forms: “all the material played in the dominant is consequently conceived as dissonant, i.e., requiring resolution by a later transposition to the tonic.” (page 25)