Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • understand musical form as constituted through musical repetition, variation, and contrast

  • perceive the unfolding of musical form in recordings of several styles of music

  • understand how form can be represented using alphabetic designations and style-specific terminology

  • use these designations and terms to describe musical form.

OpenLearn - Introduction to music theory 1: form
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