Form and Analysis

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course will familiarize students with aspects of musical form in the common-practice repertoire. The course begins with the smallest units of form: phrase structure, including the sentence, period, and hybrid. The focus will then extend beyond this, to include large-scale forms such as binary, ternary, compound ternary, theme and variations, rondo, and sonata. Students will learn to apply this knowledge both through analytical writing assignments and model composition.