Music
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pitch rhythm timbre dynamics
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melody harmony | tone-colour
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tempo rhythmic-pattern metre
Form
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unity symmetry tension-relaxation
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whole piece techniques to extend
| an idea
themes |
harmonic progression |
sections |
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variation --- decoration
|- simplification
\- modification
expansion --- vertical
\- horizontal
sequence --- rising sequence (repeat at higher pitch)
|- falling sequence (repeat at lower pitch)
\- diatonic remains in same key
inversion
diminution -- repartition in shorter note values
augmentation- repartition in longer note values
ostinarto --- short group of notes repeated over
and over with small variations
Motif short recognisable
Figure short for forming repeated pattern
theme longer recognisable + recurrent
may or may not sound complete
Melody longer sounds complete in itself
or tune
Actual Forms
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| Actual Forms (structures) |
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|| Single Idea Forms ||
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|||repartition || elaboration || continuous | ||
||| form || || extension | ||
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|||AAA || decorate tune | ||
|||(songs repeat || or weave | ||
|||for each verse) || decorative parts| ||
||| \------\ || around it | ||
||| repartition of one |\-----------------/ ||
||| fixed element \----------\ /------------------------\ ||
||| /---------------------------\ | | variation form | ||
|||Passacacliars chaconnes | | | ||
||| | | | |------------------------| ||
|||base line: series of | | repeat but vary each | ||
|||triple time repeated chords | | time | ||
|||Top: | | | | ||
|||set of variations example: | | transformation: | ||
||| 'twelve bar | | varies the character of| ||
||| blues' | | the theme | ||
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||| imitative devices |||
||| cannon fugue |||
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||| strict imitation free imitation |||
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||| ricercar conzona |||
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||| based on solemn style based on livelier |||
||| of sacred motets style of chansons |||
||| and madrigals |||
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| | binary form ||ternary form || rondo || arch form ||ritornello| |
| | || | || | || | || | |
| | || ABA || ABACA || ABCBA || | |
| | || -A-?-B-\ || or || || | |
| | || da capo || ABACADA || || | |
| | || /--?---/ || or || || | |
| | || \A--fine || ABACAB'A|| || | |
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