Sunday, November 20, 2016

Form

Defined as referring to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music, and it describes the layout of a composition 


  • Ternary

  • Defined as the form of a movement in which the first subject is repeated after an interposed second subject in a related key.
    • ABA
  • Musical Example:

0:19- 0:30 is the first A section of the piece. Then the B sections starts at 0:31-0:42. Then the A sections starts again at 0:43-0:52. 


  • Rondo

    •  a principal theme (sometimes called the "refrain") alternates with one or more contrasting themes, generally called "episodes", but also occasionally referred to as "digressions" or "couplets". 
      • ABACA Form 
      • Small Structures (length of piece) 
      • One instrument 
      • Classical Era




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