MUSICAL FORMS : LSUS

CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ART (CCA - FINE ART) JSS3 SECOND TERM

WEEK 3

MUSICAL FORMS

Performance Objectives

Students should be able to:

  1. What is musical form?
  2. List any three types of musical forms.

Content

MEANING OF MUSICAL FORM: Musical form or musical architecture refers to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music and it describes the layout of a composition as divided into sections. In analyzing musical forms, motives, phrases and sentences of a piece of music are very important.

  1. MOTIVES: Motives are the most minor units or figures of a musical composition, consisting of at least two, three four or more notes and have clearly recognizable melodic or rhythmic figures giving life to a piece of music.
  2. PHRASES: A musical expression consist of one or more.... View More

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