MUS 1751 Lecture : Audio Lecture No 2 Outline
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Topics for chap 6, focusing on musical forms, pp. Important vocabulary defined on p. 59: form, statement, repetition, contrast, variation; concept of labeling sections of music as a, b, c, d . ; i"ll demonstrate with a tune by duke ellington entitled satin doll, which has form aaba (very common in popular music of 20th and 21st centuries) Strophic form easy since it implies music with words; music that repeats with each new. Stanza or as we like to call it, verse; chorus implies words that get repeated with each verse (see ex. p 60: listen to famous lullaby by brahms. Theme and variations perhaps most universal formal concept, at its simplest level involving the statement of a melody, then an elaboration or variation on it; i"ll demonstrate again with. Satin doll, this time improvising a simple variation on the tune (or theme : listen to famous variations on twinkle, twinkle, little star by mozart.
