Binary/Ternary
The ternary form may be expanded by the use of repetitions of any section.
What is True?
This states the material on which the entire movement is based.
What is Exposition?
This repeated from one to four times during the course of the composition.
What is a Refrain?
A short, recurring figure that appears throughout a composition or section of music.
What is Motif?
Literally means note against note
What is counterpoint?
The term for the sections that a piece can generally be divided into two or more major sections, and the boundaries between these sections
What is Formal Divisions?
This section includes motivic manipulation of the themes from the exposition.
What is the development?
Connects a refrain to an episode.
What is a transition?
A repeated pitch pattern. It usually recurs accompanied by the same or a similar rhythmic pattern.
What is Melodic Motive?
Short, Main, Motivic theme
What is a Subject?
If the first section cadences on the tonic of the composition (the original tonic)
What is Closed or Sectional?
Theis term generally refers to all movements of a multi-movement composition.
What is a Sonata?
The term for the contrasting section in this form.
What is an Episode?
A recurring rhythmic pattern in a piece of music
What is Rhythmic Motive?
Where motivic material is stated first and then followed by a series of varied repetions
What is Theme and Variation?
Ternary Form consists of three principal parts A B C in which each section is a complete musical statement.
What is False?
It is quite similar to the exposition, but the original key of the composition is used for all themes.
What is Recapitulation?
This term for a return from an episode to the refrain.
What is a Retransition?
This usually moves in only one direction—the segments succeed each other at continuingly higher pitches or continuingly lower pitches.
What is Sequences?
A continuation of counterpoint in the voice that began with the subject.
What is a Countersubject?
The forerunner of binary form was a structure from the medieval period.
What is bar form?
The term distinguishes the form of a single movement.
What is Sonata form?
The outline for a seven-part Rondo.
What is A B A C B A?
A substantial musical thought usually ending with a harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic cadence
What is Phrase?
When the subject is completed it is imitated in another voice normally P5 or P5 above or below.
What is an Answer?