Seminar on musical form
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
This seminar should be taken together with the analysis course of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. It aims at enhancing the practical experience with the analysis of compositions representing various classical forms. During the course, the student is expected to analyze a number of works as independent homework and present these at the seminar.
1st semester
- Main forms of the baroque era (binary form, baroque sonata, rondo, concerto, da capo forms, basso ostinato variations)
- The forms of the classical themes (sentence, period, small binary, small ternary)
- Compound ternary (Minuet/Trio form)
- Theme and variations
2nd semester
- Slow movement forms
- Rondo and sonata-rondo
- Sonata form
- Concerto form
A concrete repertoire list for analysis will be given by the instructor at the beginning of the semester.
Knowledge of elementary music theory, classical harmony, and counterpoint
On completion of this subject, the students will be able to
- Characterize and differentiate the standard musical forms of the 18th and 19th centuries;
- Recognize these forms in practice, including in their repertoire;
- Describe the tonal organization of a tonal composition and find out its cadences;
- Describe the phrase structure of the piece;
- Divide the large-scale forms into sections and define the function of each section (main theme, transition, subordinate
theme etc.)
- Notice the most important thematic connections and characterize the thematic process;
- Differentiate the conventional techniques from the specific features of the piece;
- Express the result of the analysis cohesively and logically, both in an oral and written form.
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