Form Flashcards
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Binary Form and how each part ends
Movement divided in two. Both sections repeated. 2nd part usually longer
1st part ends with HC or AC in new key
2nd part unstable ends with PAC
Rounded binary form
Open returns in middle to end of second. Must be og key with little variation
Balanced binary form
Cadence rhyme
Simple binary form
A and B are related but material doesn’t get repeated
Symmetrical form
Sections same length
Sectional form
First part ends with AC in OG key
Four movement piece form
1: fast Sonata
2: slow lyrical
3: fast, triple meter, ternary form
4: fastest, rondo or sonata
Ternary form- how does A end
ABA
A usually ends in home key on PAC
2nd A usually longer than first
B is more substantial in ternary
Compound ternary
A and B are in ternary form themselves
Rondo and how each part ends
Can be 5 or 7 part
ABACA(BA)
WHAT MAKES RONDO A RONDO- A is the refrain (the same, home key every time)
A ends with PAC in home key
B ends in HC or PAC in new key
B is more simple, stable, shorter than C
First B related key, second home key
What makes Rondo a Rondo
A is the refrain. Same every time. Home key
Transition
Move to new key
Re transition
Move back to home key
Modified transition
Sounds like it’s modulating, but doesn’t. Uses dominant prolongation,sequences, linear chromaticism
Continuous variation form
The theme is one phrase that ends on half cadence
A section ends in different key
One part form
No repeats, all lead to tonic at end
Strophic
Songs. New lyrics, same music
Modified strophic
Almost the same music for each set of lyrics
Through composed
It’s what it sounds like
Sonata form and subsections
Optional intro
Exposition (primary theme-transition-medial caesura-secondary theme-closing)
Repeat
Development (x-section and Re transition)
Recapitulation (primary theme-transition-secondary theme-closing)
Optional- repeat development and recapitulation
Optional Coda
Exposition
Repeated- begins in tonic ends in secondary key
Primary theme (ends in home key)
Transition (starts in tonic ends with HC in new key. May begin like primary, but modulates)
Medial caesura
Secondary theme (ends with PAC in new key) (new material or variant)
Closing (PAC, no new material)
Development
After closing of exposition
Ends with PAC and avoids tonic Harmonically unstable
X-section
Re transition- usually dom prolongation, but could be sequence or something
Recapitulation
Comes after development
Starts and ends in home key
Primary theme
Transition
Secondary theme (transposed to tonic)
Closing (transposed to tonic)
Coda
Fresh new stuff
Comes after closing of recapitulation