[Music] Musical Form slide presentation powerpoint

[Music] Musical Form slide presentation powerpoint

1. Musical Form
Please take handout

2. I. Musical Form Musical Form (5 Variations on a Theme)
B. Form as musical architecture
C. Form as hearing aural identity/difference
D. Form as a continuum
Repetition Total Contrast
A. Form as balance of unity/variety
E. Form as web of relations:
(How is what I’m now hearing related to what I’ve heard?)

3. II. Conventions and Common II. Conventions and Common
Forms 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

4. III.III.Brahms Piano Quartet in g minor,Brahms Piano Quartet in g minor,
finale (finale (Rondo alla ZingareseRondo alla Zingarese ) )
A. Piano quartet =
B. Finale = last movement of a piece
D. Rondo (expect form)
F. All in duple meter
C. Begins in g minor (g= tonic; minor mode)
Piano, violin, viola, ‘cello
E. alla Zingarese (in gypsy style)

5. “Form-within-Form” of Opening (A)
aa’bb’a a”
___ ∧__ ___ ___ ∧__ . . (b=ornamented descending scale)
+ transition =
b b’ a a”’
^7-^8
cadence
scale

6. aaba’ba’
ABACDBC
Transition
section of

A
tran+bb
Cadenza
(piano)
D
Strings

onlyB
piano
C
stringsC+B
Combined
Strings+piano
A
+
Coda
aabb’aa’’ || tran +bb’|| aaaabbaa

7. Exam #1 Format:
1.10-12 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