In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance. In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of...

a musical composition with roots in improvisation. The fantasia, like the impromptu, seldom follows the textbook rules of any strict musical form. The...

musical line, usually ending on a tonally stabilizing pitch, with variety being created by couplets of different lengths and with different musical arches...

The sonata form (also sonata-allegro form or first movement form) is a musical structure generally consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a...

Verse–chorus form is a musical form going back to the 1840s, in such songs as "Oh! Susanna", "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze", and many others...

Ternary form, sometimes called song form, is a three-part musical form consisting of an opening section (A), a following section (B) and then a repetition...

tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably...

accompany dancing. It can be either a whole piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance...

surrounding whether it is truly a musical instrument or an object formed by animals. The earliest objects whose designations as musical instruments are widely accepted...

chord progression, form, and meter. The attempt to structure and communicate new ways of composing and hearing music has led to musical applications of set...

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical –...

Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process...

implemented by Confucian scholar-officials [...], these theories helped form a musical Confucianism that overshadowed but did not erase rival approaches. These...

Bar form (German: die Barform or der Bar) is a musical form of the pattern AAB. The term comes from the rigorous terminology of the Meistersinger guilds...

adhere Musical form, a generic type of composition or the structure of a particular piece The Forms (band), an American indie rock band Form (computer...

A variety of musical terms is encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian...

Dumka (Ukrainian: думка, dúmka, plural думки, dúmky) is a musical term introduced from the Ukrainian language, with cognates in other Slavic languages...

development. The 19th-century instrumental ballade emerged as a distinctive musical form that broke away from the traditional sonata and rondo structures. Rather...

Pavan, alternate spelling of pavane, a slow 16th-century dance, or the musical form for such a dance Pavan (Hindu god), a god of wind in Hindu mythology...

to instrumental music. While most musical forms such as ternary form (ABA), rondo form (ABACABA), and sonata form (ABA') rely on repetition, through-composed...

Theme-and-variation forms are, however, based specifically on melodic variation, in which the fundamental musical idea, or theme, is repeated in altered form or accompanied...

information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections...

Binary form is a musical form in 2 related sections, both of which are usually repeated. Binary is also a structure used to choreograph dance. In music...

musical episode titled "Rollercoaster: The Musical!" was released for the second season, which reenacts the events of "Rollercoaster" in musical form...

Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini...

word στροφή (strophḗ, "turn"). It is the simplest and most durable of musical forms, extending a piece of music by repetition of a single formal section...

Nations from Yad Vashem. After World War II he became a lecturer in musical form and analysis at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Akademie...

repeated the second A section. Christina's tune had the musical form AABA. This is the musical form of "Waltzing Matilda" sung today. When Christina arrived...

form is a sectional structure for a piece of music based on repetition, in reverse order, of all or most musical sections such that the overall form is...

Abstract structures include data structures in computer science and musical form. Types of structure include a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships)...