Music Theory: Binary & Ternary Forms
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- The very basics of binary and ternary form, with some examples.
0:20 Form
1:53 Binary Forms
3:50 Binary Example Analysis
8:08 Rounded Binary
9:44 Rounded Binary Example Analysis
14:06 Ternary Forms
16:25 Ternary Example Analysis
Your videos on Binary and Ternary and Sonata and Rondo have helped me SO MUCH. I am in music theory as an undergrad getting my music education degree and this is the hardest class I have ever taken. I have trouble understanding the textbook and your videos have broken it down so well for me that I finally get it! Thank you so much!
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what exactly is a section in the first place
One question, if I can ask. When I look at beautiful Schumann's Northern song (Op. 68, No. 41), I think this is the rounded binary form. Yet, at the end of it, the whole A section is repeated (little varied but the melody is exactly the same) so it might be the ternary form? But in that case, the B section is probably too short and I'm not sure can the ternary form be repeated like A ||: B A :II
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Great thinking. A lot of music doesn't fit common formal templates exactly. I would not call this a ternary form - the B section is so short, and it uses the same motive as A, and thus doesn't really "stand by itself." It acts more as a brief digression, which is more common in rounded binary forms - even if the proportions are a little unusual. Thanks for sharing this lovely music!
I think the end of the A section prepares us to a short modulation to E major going into the B section, only to modulate back into D major in the last 4 measures before repeating.
I'm pointing this out only because I'm studying cadences right now, and this is important because all I'm seeing are half cadences up until the last 4 bars.
Hello! I assume you are referring to Mozart with this comment? Hard for me to see a modulation to E in that work - there is only one momentary D-sharp that tonicizes that key, and we immediately shift away back to DM.
Analyzing the end of the A section as a half cadence - and thus remaining in DM rather than changing key - is not a crazy thing to think. The work *is* in D, and so any expansive listening will hear this as a half cadence in the large-scale sense. But a more detail-oriented listen makes me want to analyze a brief modulation here - there is just too much AM-centric harmony in the last three measures of the A section.
Thanks a lot for your video!! It helps me a lot with my coming interview. I got a question though, Is there a kind of Ternary with a developmental third part? if yes, does it have a proper name? I would be appreciate if you can answer my question. :)
Hi! I don't think I have a clean name for the form you describe. Formal templates often can have a lot of variance - blending of different sections or functions, for example. When I think development, I often think of sonata-related forms; maybe something connects there...
Best of luck!
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thanks a lot! very good clear explanation. i have a question though, in all of the examples, the B section always started on a different KEY than the A section. is that always required in the B section to be able to create a contrast? or can the B section also start on the same key?
Hello! That is a great question.
"Always required" is pretty tough to say about most things in music. The B section in a binary form typically shows a digression from the initial key area. A lot of times this is a modulation, but in shorter/simpler binary forms, it might just be a shift to some different chords that are still in the original key - perhaps emphasizing vi or something like that. Sometimes this is enough to sound like we have moved to a new musical place.
Hope this helps!
B sections can begin on the original tonic. In fact the Bach Minuet example in the video begins its B section with a G major chord. At the instant it is heard it is still the tonic--the modulation happens during the course of the phrase.
hi, may I ask if what is the form of Mo Li Hua? thank you
Hello, ¡where do you get this method of analysis from? ¿any bibliography ?
Hi! Here are some good resources from which I draw: Caplin, Analyzing Classical Form; Laitz, The Complete Musician; Kostka & Payne, Tonal Harmony.
Excellent explaination sir!
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I'm so lost at form, my pieces sounds like a mess.
Same here
I've never felt so related to a youtube comment before. I can't get it right :(
I don't know what's happening
@@memyselfandi1839 what you mean? Like what's happening in the video?
@@SadisticKillerXx yep
what a great video and i really want the book though what it its title?
can a work still be a binary form if each phrase ends one a authentic cadence.... super confused lol
Yes!
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I don't understand ternary form
Huh
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Mozart,form Piano sonata no.6 in D,K.284,mov2