Strophic

  • multiple settings of text set to a singular musical strophe

Modified strophic

  • Music is modified to reflect changes in the text

Ternary setting

  • ABA with 121 text
  • ABA with 123 text

through-composed

  • ABCD etc. with 1234 etc.

Verse-chorus 1

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verse 1 –> ch.

verse 2 –> ch.

verse 3 –> ch.

verse 4 –> ch.

 

*sometimes has a bridge thrown in for added contrast

verse chorus 2

verse 1 –> ch.

ch.

ch.

ch.

tin pan alley chorus

aaba

abac

abca

 

*b section is bridge

12 bar blues

3 4-bar phrases

aa’b

a= I///

a’=IV/I/

b=V/I/

 

lots of embellishing chords

verse traits

transition from speech to song

classic chord progression

hypermetric qualities

chorus traids

general description

harmonically focused

meter/tempo firmly set

hypermeter
the formulation of larger metric units consisting of 2+ measures
invention

has a subject & episode

 

  1. begins with subject in tonic key
  2. statement of subject in another voice
  3. episode in lots of closely related keys
  4. modulates back to original key

subject

theme of an invention

1-4 bars long

may appear in either voice

episode

modulating passage; filler

contains snippits of the subject

altered subject via fragmentation inversion retrogradation

not necessarily between every single subject

typical fugue

exposition

episode

middle entry

episode

mid entry

episode

recapitulation

coda

voice
discrete melodic line
subject

motive theme of a fugue

 

(double fugue has 2 subjects)

answer

statement of subject transposed to the dominant

 

occurs in the fugue’s exposition

exposition

initial portion of the fugue

each voice enters seperately

all voices state either subject or answer

no order

middle entries
statements of the fugue subject after exposition
final entry

the final statement in tonic key

outer voice

episode
modulating passage between subjects
coda
cadential material following final entry
simple binary

AB

;

A; may be sectional or continuous (ending on a PAC or a HC)

;

B; uses either new material or the same material as the A section

rounded binary

A B-A

;

a; same as simple binary

b; three criteria

– no thematic contrast

– harmonic instability; prolongs dominant harmony

– weak harmonic/melodic closure

2nd a; frequently abb.

ternary

A B A

;

a: sectional

b: strong thematic content

harmonic/ tonal stability in a contrasting key

strong closure

a: fully restated or expanded