Understanding of Music: Chapter 6 Musical Form

A large-scale work, like a symphony, is often broken up into smaller sections called

Movements

Music that is made up spontaneously in performance is called improvisation

True

The basic elements of form are repetition, variation, and contrast.

True

The direct opposite of strophic form is through-composed form.

True

When a melodic idea is used as a building block in the construction of a larger work it is called a

Theme

In this excerpt from the English folk song, Greensleeves, where does a new section (B) with contrast begin?

21 seconds

Which of the following is the most common form in vocal music?

Strophic form

Match the descriptions of musical form to the correct excerpts from Simple Gifts

0:00- 0:43: Initial musical statement 0:44- 1:03: Departure from the initial musical statement 1:04- 1:45: Repetition of the original music statement

When a melodic idea is used as a building block in the construction of a larger work, what is it called?

A theme

Match the following forms with their formal patterns

A-B-A: Ternary A-B: Binary

A theme can be developed by using which?

All of these

One of the basic structures in music is ___ , which begins with a statement and ends with a departure, without a return to the opening section

Binary Form

Which of the following terms may be applied to the opening of Beethoven's first movement, Symphony No. 5 and which may not?

Correct Answers: - Motive - Sequence Incorrect Answers: - Improvisation

Which of the following are the basic elements of form and which are not?

Correct Answers: - Variation - Contrast - Repetition Incorrect Answers: - Consonance - Conjunct

In through-composed songs, music from previous stanzas is repeated

False

In this excerpt, how does the second section (00:24-00:51) compare to the first section (00:00 - 00:23)?

It is different

The opening section sounds marchlike, with accented beats and alternations between instrumental groups. Eventually, a total change of character marks a short, new section. At approximately which time interval from the beginning does this new section appear?

Just after 1 minute

A short, repeated musical pattern used as a structural device is known as a(n) ___

Ostinato

A motive, when restated at a different pitch, results in a ___

Sequence

Which form features a statement of an idea, a contrasting idea, and then the return of the first idea (A-B-A)?

Ternary