Form
Modal Mixture or Applied Chord
Couplets, Tercets, or Quatrains
Auxiliary and Core Sections
100
Alters scale degrees 3, 6, and 7

Modal mixture

100

The groupings of text that contain couplets, tercets, or quatrains

Stanza (poetry) or strophe (music)

100

This section uses the label X in form diagrams

Coda

200

#III

NEITHER! I GOT YOU :O

200

This section provides extreme textural contrast in a song and likely occurs before the last VCU.

Bridge

300

V/ii in F major

D major

300

This core section is lyric-variant, while the music is lyric-invariant.

Verse

400

iv/vii in G major

not real...don't make me upset

400

This auxiliary section closes VCU cycles.

Postchorus

500

There is a Roman numeral that does not belong: biv, bVI, bIII.

biv....it's just iv

500

Couplets, tercets, and quatrains are identified by this feature.

Answers may vary

500

These auxiliary sections are instrumental, and at least one is required in your song composition assignment.

Intro/outro