Classical Forms
Exposition :| Development Recapitulation
Sonata form
Subject, Countersubject, Stretto, etc.
Fugue
Neapolitan
I | | | |IV | |I | |V |IV |I | |
12-Bar Blues
A B A C A
Rondo
Repeated set of Chords
Chaconne
Notes borrowed from minor into major or vice versa
Modal Mixture
A A B A
Quaternary (or 32-bar Form)
Strophic
Repeated melody
Passacaglia
Augmented sixth chords
Name for a Db7 in place of an expected G7
Tritone Substitution
A B A C A B A
Sonata-Rondo
Vocal piece in Composite Ternary form
Da Capo Aria
A Gr+6 may be interpreted enharmonically as a V7 in a key whose tonic is how far and in what direction from the present key?
Up a half step
Name for a drum pattern where the kick plays on every beat
Four on the Floor
Form with three nested binaries (and usually a da capo)
Composite Ternary
A :||: B A'
Rounded Binary
A viio43 in the home key functions as viio7 in a key of this distance from the original.
A Tritone
Name for a comping pattern of dotted quarter, eighth
the Charleston