Form
This form has an A and B section.
What is binary form?
A musical sentence.
What is a phrase?
The final section of a piece of music.
What is a coda?
This form has an A section, a B section then returns to the A section.
What is ternary form?
A constantly recurring musical pattern or phrase.
What is an ostinato?
The section of a song that tells a story.
What is a verse?
This form is common in most popular music.
What is verse/chorus form?
A short melodic, harmonic or rhythmic fragment that recurs throughout a piece of music.
What is a motif?
This is a catchy section of a song.
What is a chorus?
This form is best represented by A, B, A, C, A.
What is Rondo form.
A common repetitive idea in popular music.
What is a riff?
A section that is different to a verse or chorus in a popular piece of music?
What is a bridge?
This vocal form only uses an A section but has different lyrics.
What is strophic form.
A small melodic or rhythmic device that recurs throughout a piece of music.
What is a fragment?
This section usually features a solo instrument over the same chord structure of another section of the song.
What is the instrumental section?