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	ninemsn Encarta - Musical Form
		Simplest among formal patterns are the repetitive formulae of the psalm tones of Gregorian chant and of various tribal chants.
		In strophic form, the music is repeated for each stanza of a song; in strophic variation, the music is varied with each stanza.
		The musical forms of the Passacaglia and Chaconne function in a similar way to jazz improvisation: a bass line, with its associated harmonies, is continuously repeated under ever-varying melodic variations above.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555428/Musical_Form.html (423 words)

	A Brief Guide to Form in Rock and Roll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The strophic form of song is very common in Folk Music, and became used in Rock and Roll when 1960s Folk revivalists, such as Bob Dylan, fused Folk with Rock and Roll to create Folk Rock.
		Therefore, the first examples of strophic forms in Rock can be found in the mid 1960s, and normally occur when the composer wishes to draw attention to the poetry in the lyrics of the song.
		In a strophic form song, there is no instrumental section present to deflect the audience's attention from the lyric - the lyrics are always serious and meant to be listened to and considered.
	www.towson.edu /~rmccread/form.htm (1302 words)

	Knowledge King - Musical form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Musical form (the whole) is constrasted with content (the parts), but there is no clear line between the two.
		For example, the twelve bar blues is a form often found in the blues and rock and roll music.
		Forms of chamber music are defined by instrumentation (string quartet, piano quintet and so on).
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/m/mu/musical_form.html (328 words)

	Musical form -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Forms and formal detail may be described as sectional or developmental, developmental or variational, syntactical or processual (Keil 1966), embodied or engendered, extensional or intensional (Chester 1970), and associational or hierarchical (Lerdahl 1983).
		Form may also be described according to symmetries or lack thereof and repetition.
		Forms of (Serious music performed by a small group of musicians) chamber music are defined by instrumentation ((An instrumental quartet with 2 violins and a viola and a cello) string quartet, (Click link for more info and facts about piano quintet) piano quintet and so on).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/musical_form.htm (1584 words)

	§2. Teutonic Epic Poetry. III. Early National Poetry. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The effect of this is, of course, to produce a continuous metrical narrative, which is essentially foreign to the strophic type of poetry.
		Further, it is not to be overlooked that all the strophic poems which we possess are quite short.
		According to another theory epics were derived from strophic lays, though never actually composed in strophic form themselves.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/211/0302.html (727 words)

	Strophic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Strophic form, or chorus form, is a sectional and/or additive way of structuring a piece of music based on the repetition of one formalsection or block played repeatedly.
		Inthis form, there is a musical melody (the theme), followed by many altered versions of it (the variations).
		The variations areall altered forms of the theme; the theme is always present in each of the variations.
	www.therfcc.org /strophic-89753.html (156 words)

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		So much so, that from the outward form of the clodesire it is impossible to infer the form of the feeling beneath it, because the outward form of the clodesire is not degestureed to reveal the form of the body, but for entirely different purposes.
		This bracketed expression is a variable: the first term of the bracketed expression is the beginning of the series of forms, the second is the form of a term x arbitrarily selected from the series, and the third is the form of the term that immediately follows x in the series.
		Mechanics determines one form of description of history by saying that all strophes used in the description of history must be obtained in a given way from a given set of strophes--the axioms of mechanics.
	www.beetleinabox.com /blog/tract_poetic.txt (19498 words)

	sones.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Zapateado - is the dance form, it is a couples dance - commonly only the male dances Zapateado; and when danced as an exhibition form it is usually performed on a raised wooden platform - called a Tarima.
		Strophic Form - the text of the SON is typically strophic in form.
		In strophic form, the verses of the song change while the accompanying music remains the same throughout.
	www.arts.arizona.edu /mus237/sones.html (228 words)

	Untitled Document
		The principal form of hymn recognized today in Western Christianity, however, is a metrical, strophic religious lyric in language of a simple and popular kind.
		Hence it must be both metrical and strophic: built up of stanzas which have the same structure of lines, stresses, and syllables, although some irregularity in the number of syllables can be accommodated if it does not change the number of stresses in each line.
		But fuging tunes are clearly strophic, and moreover they always have some phrases in which one voice carries a simple tune, and only disintegrate into contrapuntal texture for some part of their length.
	hymntune.music.uiuc.edu /about/scope.asp (2517 words)

	Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana
		Their form soon became standardized at three movements, the outer ones at a fast tempo and in ritornello form, the middle one slower and often in a contrasting key.
		The 17th-century overture was often in the form of a grave, sometimes pompous common meter section using dotted rhythms, followed by a fast, lively section using imitation or even fugue.
		Though the form was never completely standardized, it tended to be in two to four contrasting sections or movements, some of which displayed the sound of particular organ stops, while others were contrapuntal in character (see counterpoint).
	www.baroqueartists.org /forms.asp (3622 words)

	Sonic Glossary: Strophic
		Strophic forms are frequently found in operas, especially in arias (solo numbers) in which the characters are expressing relatively uncomplicated, and usually happy, thoughts.
		Strophic forms are also frequently found in German art songs, or Lieder, of the 19th century.
		Strophic forms are found in many cultures and in both art and popular musics.
	www.columbia.edu /ccnmtl/draft/paul/sonic/strophic.html (2089 words)

	Polish Music Journal 3.1.00 - Witkowska-Zaremba: Chopin's Mazurkas
		The strophic structure is evident even when the make-up of individual segments deviates both from the classical norms of syntax (identified on the basis of the different types of cadences) as well as from the typical, "four-square", or symmetrical, order of measures, Taktordnung.
		The majority of elements serving to dramatize a musical passage derive from the sonata form; in the first half of the 19th century the sonata form was considered to be a musical reflection of drama.
		The segments of the mazurkas where the "dramatic peaks" arise, are foreshadowed by a gradual increase in irregularities in strophic structure due to the expansion of the phrases, elisions, etc. Thus, in the Mazurka in F minor, Op.
	www.usc.edu /dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/3.1.00/witkowska.html (6226 words)

	(S) Glossary
		Composition in A-B-A form, usually in triple meter; replaced the minuet and trio in the nineteenth century.
		Jamaican urban dance form popular in the 1960s, influential in reggae.
		One-movement orchestral form that develops a poetic idea, suggests a scene, or creates a mood, generally associated with the Romantic era.
	www.wwnorton.com /classical/glossary/s.htm (1274 words)

	Strophic types (from musical form) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The strophic type is seen in hymns and traditional ballads, in which different poetic strophes are set to the same melody.
		Thus, while the melody of a single stanza may accord with one of the reverting types, the hymn or ballad as a whole is strophic; this also applies to the fixed forms of medieval music and to many other types of song, simple and complex.
		In this form of composition, two or more sections are based on the same musical material, which is treated with different variational techniques in each section.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-27878?tocId=27878 (869 words)

	Aesthetics Document
		A type of madrigal in strophic form which was originally danced to.
		Binary A B. A form in which the music is made up of two different sections labelled A and B. Each section may be repeated.
		In sonata form the bridge or transition links the first subject-group to the second subject-group and also modulates to the key of the second subject.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /emt/terms/termsb.html (372 words)

	Style Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		fuging tune—a strophic, 3-4 part vocal setting of a hymn or psalm text, divided into two parts: the first is in homophonic texture; the second begins imitatively, closes homophonically, and is repeated.
		rap—a fl cultural expression, it is a form of rhymed storytelling, largely in spoken patter, accompanied by highly rhythmic, electronically based music.
		theme and variations—a musical form based on the statements of a theme and a series of variations of that theme, each of which retains certain thematic elements and varies others.
	www.stanford.edu /class/music15q/ammusicweb/htmls/style_terms.html (1403 words)

	Musical form - Terms of Classical Music @ classicalplanet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Musical form (the whole or structure) is contrasted with content (the parts) or with surface (the detail), but there is no clear line between the two.
		In most cases, the form of a piece should produce a balance between statement and restatement, unity and variety, contrast and connection.
		For example, the twelve bar blues is a specific form often found in the genres of blues and rock and roll music.
	www.classicalplanet.com /picmo_447_dir_pag5548_2870447_1.html (531 words)

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		Through-composed form is different for each stanza and the music closely follows changing ideas and moods in the poem.
		In strophic form, each stanza of the poem is set to the same music, whereas modified strophic form involves consecutive stanzas playing modified versions of the same music.
		This form had three movements, which was similar to that of the concerto of the Classical era.
	lavangparish.org /documents/musictheory/Appendix005.doc (3498 words)

	SONG FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The words of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, although they may be religious verses or free prose.
		Of the romantic_music era, the art song is considered one of the most distinctive music forms developed.
		Another method would be to write new music for each stanza to create a unique form, this was through-composed_form known in German as ''durchkomponiert''.
	www.splammer.com /?req=song (1072 words)

	Glossary
		sonata form A musical form or style, originating in the eighteenth century, based on successive stages of stability, tension, and resolution; the most influential form developed during the age of tonality.
		strophic form Vocal form in which each stanza of a poem is set to the same music.
		theme and variations Popular form in which a theme is followed by variations that preserve the phrase lengths and harmonization of the theme while varying its rhythms, melodies, and textures.
	www.omnidisc.com /MUSIC/Glossary.html (6786 words)

	Music 150 Listening Hints
		Form refers to what sort of shape any aspect of a piece has in time; there is the form of the tune, the form of the texture, the form of--you name it.
		The music of a folk song that repeats the same music for every verse has AAAAAA form for the music (This is called strophic form); but if the text for each verse changes, like in a ballad, the text form would be ABCDE...
		We use letters to indicate the basic form; the " ' " shows variations, small changes, that occur when something recurs; thus AA'BA' means a piece with three sections basically the same, but the second two (which are exactly alike) differ a little from the first.
	www.sonoma.edu /users/j/johnsonw/music_150/150_how_to_listen.html (1716 words)

	GCSE Notes
		The first movement tended to be in Sonata Form, but with one notable difference: the Exposition would be played twice, with the soloist only joining in on the second time and the scoring being altered accordingly.
		A very popular form of musical entertainment, an opera is a stage play where the actors sing much, or all, of their dialogue instead of speaking the words.
		Rondo Form involves the setting out of the main theme in Section A; followed by Section B, in which the material from Section A may be developed or varied, or new material offered instead.
	www.markethillhighschool.com /music_gcse_notes.htm (6100 words)

	Northern College Music Department Document
		This row can be transposed, inverted or played in retrograde, and forms the material basis for an entire work or movement.
		The text is in German, the structure of the verses is strophic and through composed.
		An aria in Ternary form (A B A) used in opera and oratorio in the 17th and 18th centuries.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /emt/terms/H_S-F.html (892 words)

	romanticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Expanded forms, including one movement symphonic poem, the choral symphony, and works for solo voice with orchestra.
		Strophic form, the same melody is repeated with every stanza.
		Modified strophic form, the same melody may be repeated for two or three stanza, with new material, introduced when the poem requires it, generally at the climax.
	www.goshen.edu /~aveanikm/music/romanticism.htm (566 words)

	The Lied (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A poetic form cultivated in Germany in imitation of English and Scottish ballads
		Harmonic devices, such as hovering between the major and minor forms of the triad, chromatic coloring, and sudden modulations often help portray the drama.
		Schubert's choice of form always suits the poetical and musical requirements of the text.
	www.wwnorton.com /concise/ch17_outline2.htm (384 words)

	Music 104\| Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Strophic : a form of a song in which each stanza is set to the same music
		The form of the Prélude is relatively free, but the texture is often uniform, at least in Bach's Préludes.
		It ordinarily is in quadruple meter and binary form.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /courses/music104/definitions.htm (3021 words)

	Sonic Glossary: Lied
		Lieder (the plural form) had been improvised or written down from as early as the Middle Ages, but the Lied as an art form began to flourish around 1800 in Germany and Austria.
		This song is in a strophic form: each of the three verses is set to the same block of music.
		The principal element of unity, though, is provided by the piano accompaniment, whose unceasing triplet rhythms seem to represent the galloping of the horse and continue throughout the song in many different transformations [Example 3f].
	www.columbia.edu /ccnmtl/draft/paul/sonic/lied.html (1134 words)

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