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| organization of musical elements in time |
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| keeping some elements of a musical thought while changing others, provides both unity and variety |
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| represented as statement, contrast, return |
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| gives a sense of statement and counterstatement |
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| refers to characteristic way of treating the various musical elements: melody, rhythm, tone color, dynamics, harmony, texture, and form |
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Middle Ages
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Twentieth Century to 1945
1945 to the present |
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