Music Form

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Music Form
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Binary or 2 part Form

• 2 part AB
• Example Row, Row, Row, Your Boat
• Part A (Row, row, row, your boat gently
• down the stream)
• Part B (Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life
  is but a dream)

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Ternary or 3 part form

• 3 part ABA
• Example Twinkle, Twinkle
• A- TwinkleHow I wonder what you are
• B- Up above..in the sky
• A-TwinkleHow I wonder what you are.

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Theme and Variations

• A A1 A2 A3
• The composer states a theme (A) and varies it to
  change the way it sounds (A1A2A3)
• There is no set number of variations.

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Fugue

• Polyphonic composition
• Subject and answer
• Popular during the Baroque period, especially
  with Bach.

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Round

• Similar to a fugue, a round is a melody that is
  done in exact repetition at different times.
• Example Row Your Boat
• Also becomes polyphonic texture when performed as
  a round

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Rondo

• Can be 5 part ABACA or 7 part ABACABA
• Longer music, used a lot as the 4th movement in
  the Classical symphony.

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Call and Response

• A group or individual starts with a line or
  phrase
• Another group answers the call
• Example cadences used by the military

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Verse and Chorus

• Has a verse that changes, chorus that remains the
  same
• Used for hymns and popular music (both country
  and rock)
• Example Jingle Bells
• Verse Dashing through the snow.
• Chorus Jingle Bells..

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Sonata Allegro Form

• Similar to ternary, but more extensive
• 1st part is the Exposition
• 2nd part is the Development
• 3rd part is the Recapitulation.
• Often used as the 1st movement in the Classical
  Symphony.

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Movements of the Symphony

• 1st Fast, heroic movement
• Often Sonata allegro form
• 2nd usually slow and lyrical
• often theme and variations
• 3rd dance type movement
• example- minuet, scherzo
• 4th fast, heroic movement
• Rondo form popular