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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
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(form) Fixes the material in our minds and satisfies our need for the familiar.
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Contrast
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(form) Stimulates our interest and feeds our love for change.
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Variation
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(form) Some aspects of the music are altered but the original is still recognizable.
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Improvisation
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Pieces created in performance as opposed to being pre-composed.
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Binary Form
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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
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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
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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
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Restatement of the theme in a higher or lower pitch level.
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Motive
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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
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Structure that recognizes a singing leader who is imitated by a chorus.
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Ostinato
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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
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A complete, comparatively independent division of a large-scale work.
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