Music 15 - Ch. 5 Form

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Form

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The organizing principle in music; its basic elements are repetition, contrast, and variation.

Grove's the construction or organizing element in music.
Logical coherence as a whole.
Relative stability.

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Repetition

Back 2

(form) Fixes the material in our minds and satisfies our need for the familiar.

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Contrast

Back 3

(form) Stimulates our interest and feeds our love for change.

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Variation

Back 4

(form) Some aspects of the music are altered but the original is still recognizable.

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Improvisation

Back 5

Pieces created in performance as opposed to being pre-composed.

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Binary Form

Back 6

Two-part form

Statement - A
Departure - B

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Ternary Form

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Three-part form

Statement (chorus) - A
Contrast (departure)(Verse) - B
Repetition (chorus - A

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Theme

Back 8

Melodic idea used as a building block in the construction of a musical work.

First in a series of musical events (of contrast and development)

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Thematic Development

Back 9

Elaborating and varying a musical idea, revealing its capacity for growth.

simplest is repetition
also sequence, breaking up the motive, call and response, ostinato

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Sequence

Back 10

Restatement of the theme in a higher or lower pitch level.

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Motive

Back 11

The component parts of a theme. The smallest fragment of a theme that forms a melodic-rhythmic unit.

Can repeat, vary, combine them into new patterns for thematic development

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Call and Response

Back 12

Structure that recognizes a singing leader who is imitated by a chorus.

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Ostinato

Back 13

A short musical pattern; melodic, rhythmic, or a composition.

.........in raindrop chopin.
Op. 28 No. 15 in D-flat major

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Movement

Back 14

A complete, comparatively independent division of a large-scale work.