Form: Formal Structures of Music Composition

Music theorists tend to define form in terms of the number of sections in a piece, and the relationships of these sections to each other, with specific attention to repetition, contrast, and variation. Accordingly, form tends to be discussed in terms of categories from the common practice period ...

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