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The quality of being organized in discrete phrases or periods, especially when this is
emphasized through frequent resting points and articulations between phrases and periods.
Periodicity
Music idiom of the mid-to-late eighteenth century, generally characterized by an emphasis on
melody over relatively light accompaniment; simple, clearly articulated harmonic plans;
period phrasing; clearly delineated forms based on contrast between themes, between keys
between state and unstable passages, an between sections with different functions; and
contrasts of mood, style, and figuration within movements as well as between them.
Classical Style
Eighteenth-century genre of Italian comic opera, sung throughout.
Opera Buffa
Eighteenth-century genre of Italian opera, on a serious subject but normally with a happy
ending, usually without comic characters and scenes.
Opera Seria
Large work for orchestra, usually in four movements
Symphony
Form typically used in first movements of sonatas, instrumental chamber works, and
symphonies during the class and romantic periods, An expansion of rounded binary form, it
was described in the nineteenth century as consisting of an exposition, development, and
recapitulation based on a limited number of themes.
Sonata form
In sonata form, the first part of the movement, in which the main themes are stated,
beginning in the tonic and usually closing in the dominant (or relative major).
Exposition
In sonata form, the section after the exposition, which modulates through a variety of
keys and in which themes from the exposition are presented in new ways.
Development
In sonata form, the third main section, which restates the material from the exposition,
normally all in the tonic.
Recapitulation
Binary form in which the beginning or all of the first section returns in the tonic in the latter
part of the second section.
Rounded binary form
Binary form in which the two sections are roughly equal in length and feature musical
material that is different or only loosely related.
Simple binary form
Form that presents an uninterrupted series of variants on a theme; the theme may be a
melody, a bass line, a harmonic plan, or other musical subject.
Variations form
Musical form in which the first or main section recurs, usually in the tonic, between subsidiary
sections or episodes.
Rondo form
Form that joins two binary-form minutes to create an ABA pattern, where A is the minuet and
B is the trio.
Minuet and trio form
A joking or particularly fast movement in minuet and trio form.
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