MUSI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ternary Form, Sonata Form, French Horn
25 May 2016
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Ternary form (aba: based on the principle of presentation, contrast, and return. Presentation and return in the tonic key. Return may be either a full or partial statement. Minuet is a genre of dance, that a musical form. Character: elegant musical style, stately tempo, constant triple meter. First appeared in the court of louis xiv (1643-1715) Most minuets in the baroque era were in binary form (ab) A second minuet that was painted with the first. After the trio, the ensemble repeated the first minuet: musical structure. Minuet trio minuet create a ternary form. Classical era minuets frequently in ternary rather than binary. Resulted in a miniature ternary form within each section of the larger. Mozart a little night music (eine kleine nachtmusick: serenade: composed during the summer of 1787. Purposed for which he wrote the work is unknown. Can be performed by solo strings or string orchestra. Wind instruments are excluded: genre: serenade.
