MUSI 1F10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: John Philip Sousa, Ostinato, Strophic Form
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Intro a a b a b a coda. Intro a a bb c d c d c. Sequence; a musical idea that is repeated at lower and lower higher and higher pitch levels. Embellishment; a basic tune has other notes added: ornamented. Call and response (leader and group answering) work songs, blues. Ostinato (a repeating melodic figure that underpins a piece, a riff) take five. Movement (a learder, usually self contained part of a work, a symphony ie. may have. Music can be improvised spontaneously creating its own form. Most improvisation happens within a pre determined form (jazz) Call and response, texture (homophony (very clear melody), heterophony; typical in jazz , polyphony) Form is based on 8 bar phrases (improvisation within the form) Adding embellishment to the tune with the piano improvisation. Theme is a recognizable tune that occurs several times in a piece. Thematic development demonstrates principles of repetition, contrast and variation.
