Form and Structure of Music

• Phrase - short musical idea
• Phrase - like a sentence
• Section - a few phrases/sentences together
• Section - like a paragraph
• A song has more than 1 section.
• Form and Structure - used to describe the order of sections
• Types of Form and Structure

  • Binary Form
  • Ternary Form
• Binary Form - piece of music with 2 sections
• Ternary Form - piece of music with 3 sections, but the 1st section comes back/turns around
• What Type of Form and Structure is this?

  A,B

  
  

  Binary Form
• What Type of Form and Structure is this?

  A,A,B,B

  Binary Form
• What Type of Form and Structure is this?

  A,B,A

  Ternary Form
• What Type of Form and Structure is this?

  A,A,B,A,A

  Ternary Form