There’s Even More to Playing the Piano
Chapter 20 - Form and Structure
Every piece of music, from the simplest folk melody to the longest symphony, has a form or structure. The structure of a piece is determined by many things - the chords, the modulations, the appearance of melodic themes, the climaxes of volume and orchestration, varying metre etc. Musical analysis tends to focus on modulation and the key scheme of a piece. This stems from the tendency of European folk songs and hymns to modulate to the dominant and back, and the subsequent adoption of this key scheme as the basis of binary form and...
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