Musical Form Please take handout I Musical Form 5 Variations on a Theme B Form as musical architecture A Form as balance of unityvariety I Musical Form 5 Variations on a Theme B Form as musical architecture ID: 763264
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Musical Form Please take handout
I. Musical Form (5 Variations on a Theme) B. Form as musical architecture A. Form as balance of unity/variety
I. 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 Variation A. Form as balance of unity/variety E. Form as web of relations: ( How’s what I hear now related to what I ’ ve heard?)
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
Brahms Piano Quartet in g minor,finale (Rondo 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)
IV. 4 Main Themes A. “Gypsy” B. “Bubbling” D. “Songlike” C. “Pompous” V. Analysis of the Form
A Brahms Quartet #1 in g minor Op. 25, finale A
“Form-within-Form” of Opening (A) a a ’ b b ’ a a ” ___ ∧ __ ___ ___ ∧__ . . (b=ornamented descending scale) + transition = 2 motives b b ’ a a ”’ ^7-^8 cadence scale
aaba ’ ba ’ A B A C D B C Transition ( tran ) section of opening without A Cadenza (piano) D Strings only B piano C Strings (frag- mented ) C+B Combined Strings+piano A + Coda Brahms Quartet #1 in g minor Op. 25, finale aa ’ bb’ aa ’’ tran + bb’ aa aabbaa
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