Chess or Sonata

Have this habit of noting down excerpts that have touched me and got me thinking for a long time. One such is from "The Bridge Across Forever" by Richard Bach.

The most commonly used form for large classical works is Sonata form. It is the basis of almost all symphonies and concertos. It consists of three main sections: the exposition or opening, in which little ideas, themes, bits and pieces are set forth and introduced to each other; the development, in which these tiny ideas and motifs are explored to their fullest, expanded, often go from major (happy) to minor (unhappy) and back again, and are developed and woven together in greater complexity until at last there is: the recapitulation, in which there is a restatement, a glorious expression of the full, rich maturity to which the tiny ideas have grown through the development process.

Chess is a game in which each party has its own singular objective even as it engages the other; a mid-game in which a struggle develops and intensifies and bits and pieces of each side are lost, both sides diminished; an end-game in which one traps and paralyses the other.

You see life as a chess game; I see it as a sonata. And because of these differences, both the king and queen are lost, and the song is silenced.