The music of the “classical” period (1775-1825) is rich with musical forms as heard in the works of masters such as Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In other situations, a composer might use musical forms of an admired predecessor as an act of homage or simply because that is “how it’s always been done.” We find this happening a great deal in the world of folk music, where a living tradition is of great importance. The composer may intentionally write music modeled after another group’s music: this happens all of the time in the world of popular music where the aim is to produce music that will be disseminated to as many people as possible. He or she has picked up, consciously and/or unconsciously, a number of ways of structuring music. He or she has learned how to write music by listening to, playing, and studying music. And it is these elements that provide structure, coherence, and shape to musical compositions.Ī composer or songwriter brings myriad experiences of music, accumulated over a lifetime, to the act of writing music. Memory allows us to hear repetition, contrast, and variation in music. Because music is a temporal art, memory plays an important role in how we experience musical form. When we talk about musical form, we are talking about the organization of musical elements-melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, timbre-in time.
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