Musical Form

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Musical Form
Please take handout
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I. Musical Form (5 Variations on a Theme)
A. Form as balance of unity/variety
B. Form as musical architecture
C. Form as hearing aural identity/difference
D. Form as a continuum
Variation
Repetition Total Contrast
E. Form as web of relations (How is what Im now
hearing related to what Ive heard?)
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II. Conventions and Common Forms
A. Conventions for writing musical forms
B. Binary (2-part) Form
C. Ternary (3- part) Form
D. Variation Forms (Theme and Variations)
E. Rondo Form
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Brahms Piano Quartet in g minor,finale (Rondo
alla Zingarese )
A. Piano quartet
Piano, violin, viola, cello
B. Finale last movement of a piece
C. Begins in g minor (g tonic minor mode)
D. Rondo (expect form)
E. alla Zingarese (in gypsy style)
F. All in duple meter
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Form-within-Form of Opening (A)
a
a
a
b
b
a
___ ?__ ___ ___ ?__ . .
(bornamented descending scale)
transition
7-8
scale
cadence
b b a a
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Brahms Quartet 1 in g minor Op. 25, finale
C
D
B
C
B
A
A
aababa
aabbaa tran bb aa
aabbaa
D Strings only
C strings
A Coda
Transition section of A tranbb
CB Combined Stringspiano
B piano
Cadenza (piano)
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• Exam 1 Format
• 10-12 Multiple Choice Listening Questions
• many based on Schumann, I bear no
  grudge
• (Ich grolle nicht)

2. 2-3 Objective sections concentrating mainly on
vocabulary from reading, lectures,
listening assignments
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