Form Review

Motives and Phrases

100

This is the smallest and shortest possible musical idea

What is a motif?

200

These can be incomplete or complete musical ideas

What is a phrase?

300

This is how long a phrase usually is

What is four measures/bars?

400

This is the number phrases often come in multiples of

What is two?

500

Motifs are most commonly found as this kind of pattern

What is pitch and rhythm?

Cadences (4A optional)

100

This is how many main types of cadences there are

What is four?

200

This occurs when V resolves to something other than I

What is a deceptive cadence?

300

This occurs when V and I are not in root position, and the root is in the melody

What is an imperfect authentic cadence?

400

These cadences do not feel nearly as stable as authentic ones

What is a half cadence?

500

These often occur at the end of a church hymn, while the congregation sings "Amen"

What is a plagal cadence?

Binary and Ternary Form

100

These are the two letters used to diagram both binary and ternary form

What is A and B?

200

This is how many musically distinct sections are found in ternary form

What is two?

300

These tell us where each section begins and ends

What are repeat signs and bar lines?

400

These are the four elements that can add variation

What are melody, harmony, rhythm, and tempo?

500

(Without using your notes) This is one of the pieces we analyzed as examples of binary and/or ternary form

What is Minuet in G major OR Mazurka in G minor?

Rondo Form

100

This is the section that must always be returned to in rondo form

What is the A section?

200

This is the section that can connect a B or C section back to an A section

What is a bridge?

300

In ABACA form, this is the section with the most complex, contrasting music

What is the C section?

400

In ABACA form, this is how many different keys you would expect to find

What is three?

500

This the form we would expect of a piece that has five contrasting sections

What is ABACADAEA?

Sonata Form

100

This is another name for sonata form

What is compound binary?

200

These are the main parts of an exposition

What are the first subject, transition, and second subject?

300

This is the purpose of the development

What is introducing variation?

400

This is the only difference between the exposition and the recapitulation

What is the key of the second subject?

500

This is the cadence that must end an exposition

What is a perfect authentic cadence?