Musical Form Please take handout I Musical Form

Musical Form Please take handout

I. Musical Form (5 Variations on a Theme) A. Form as balance of unity/variety B. Form as musical architecture

I. Musical Form (5 Variations on a Theme) A. Form as balance of unity/variety B. Form as musical architecture C. Form as hearing aural identity/difference D. Form as a continuum Repetition Total Contrast E. Form as web of relations: (How’s what I hear now related to what I’ve heard? )

II. Conventions and Common Forms A. Conventions for writing musical forms B. Binary (2 -part) Form C. Ternary (3 - part) Form D. Variation Forms (Theme and Variations) E. Rondo Form

III. Brahms Piano Quartet in g minor, finale (Rondo alla Zingarese ) A. Piano quartet = Piano, violin, viola, ‘cello B. Finale = last movement of a piece C. Begins in g minor (g= tonic; minor mode) D. Rondo (expect form) E. alla Zingarese (in gypsy style) F. All in duple meter

IV. 4 Main Themes A. “Gypsy” B. “Bubbling” C. “Pompous” D. “Songlike” V. Analysis of the Form

A A

“Form-within-Form” of Opening (A) a ___ a’ ∧__ b’ b a a” ___ ∧_ _. . (b=ornamented descending sca le) + transition = ^7 -^8 e scal cadence 2 motives b b’ a a”’

A aa’ B bb’ aa’’ tran + bb’ aa Transition (tran) section of opening Cadenza without A (piano) A C aabbaa aaba’ba’ D Strings only D C B piano Strings (fragmented) B C C+B A Combined Strings+piano + Coda

Exam #1 Format: 1. 10 -12 Multiple Choice Listening Questions many based on Schumann, I bear no grudge (“Ich grolle nicht”) 2. 2 -3 Objective sections concentrating mainly on vocabulary from reading, lectures, listening assignments