Editing Sonata form (section)

===Truncated sonata form===
Occasionally, especially in some Romantic works, the sonata form extends only as far as the end of the exposition, at which point the piece transitions directly into the next movement instead of a development section. One example is [[Henryk Wieniawski]]'s [[Violin Concerto No. 2 (Wieniawski)|Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor]]. Another example is [[Fritz Seitz]]'s Violin Concertos for students, where such a truncated sonata form is used ostensibly to cut down on the first movements' length. Sometimes, the third movement of such works is the recapitulation of the first movement (one example being Franz Strauss' Horn Concerto in C Minor), making the entire work effectively a single-movement sonata.

Some Classical slow movements involve a different sort of truncation, in which the development section is replaced altogether by a short retransition. This occurs in the slow movements of Mozart's quartets [[K. 387]], [[String Quartet No. 17 (Mozart)|K. 458]], [[String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart)|K. 465]], [[String Quartet No. 21 (Mozart)|K. 575]], and [[String Quartet No. 22 (Mozart)|K. 589]]. It is also common in overtures, occurring for example in Mozart's overture to ''[[Le nozze di Figaro]]'', or Rossini's overture to ''[[Il barbiere di Siviglia]]''. This is distinct from a short development, such as in the opening movement of Mozart's Violin Sonata in G major, [[K. 379]].

Another instance of a truncated sonata form has the development section completely omitted altogether, and the recapitulation immediately follows the exposition (even without a retransitional passage).{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} This occurs in the first movement of [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]'s [[Serenade for Strings (Tchaikovsky)|Serenade for Strings]], and is known as [[sonatina]] form.