While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately as stand-alone pieces, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession.
A movement is a section, "a major structural unit perceived as the result of the coincidence of relatively large numbers of structural phenomena".
[1] A unit of a larger work that may stand by itself as a complete composition.
Most often the sequence of movements is arranged fast-slow-fast or in some other order that provides contrast.While the ultimate harmonic goal of a tonal composition is the final tonic triad, there will also be many interior harmonic goals found within the piece, some of them tonic triads and some of them not.
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