MUS 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Strophic Form, Electrical Contacts, Ostinato
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Slide 1: musical form: form refers to the way the elements of a composition are combined to make it understandable, balance between unity and variety, techniques of musical form: Slide 2: structure and design in music: repetition and contrast are the basic elements, strophic form vs. through-composed, variation form: some aspects of the music are altered, but original remains recognizable, improvisation: pieces created spontaneously in performance. Slide 3: binary and ternary form: binary (two-part) contains a statement and a departure. >outlined as a-b: ternary (three-part) contains a statement, a departure, and a return. Slide 4: the building blocks of form: theme: a melodic idea used as the building block for a larger work. >the expansion of a theme is called thematic development: sequence: restates a theme at a higher or lower pitch level, motives: are smaller units of a theme, call-and-response: responsorial, ostinato. >short musical pattern- melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic: movements.
