Forms
Periods of Music
100
A-B-A
What is Sonata form?
100
800-1600; modes instead of major/minor.
What is Medieval?
200
A-B
What is Binary form?
200
1920-present; chromaticism, non-traditional scales, John Cage, Bela Bartok, George Gershwin
What is Contemporary Period?
300
A-B-C
What is ternary form?
300
1600-1750; Bach; Handel; key consciousness.
What is Baroque?
400
A melody that can be sung/played against itself in imitation.
What is a canon?
400
1750-1825; Mozart; Beethoven
What is Classical?
500
A-B-A-C-A-D . . .
What is Rondo form?
500
1825-1900; Schumann; Schubert; Tchaikovsky
What is Romantic?
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