Musical Form CBA

Musical Forms CBA

Gregorian

Gregorian chant, monophonic, or unison, liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, used to accompany the text of the mass and the canonical hours, or divine office. Gregorian chant is named after St. Gregory I, during whose papacy (590–604) it was collected and codified.

Motet

The motet was even more complex, with additional vocal parts being sung along with previously existing chant. These additional vocal parts started as short repeating patterns, as is heard here. Over time, the rhythms became longer and more complex.

Chorale

A chorale is a melody to which a hymn is sung by a congregation in a German Protestant Church service. The typical four-part setting of a chorale, in which the sopranos (and the congregation) sing the melody along with three lower voices, is known as a chorale harmonization.

Sonata

The basic elements of sonata form are three: exposition, development, and recapitulation, in which the musical subject matter is stated, explored or expanded, and restated. There may also be an introduction, usually in slow tempo, and a coda, or tailpiece.

Concerto

Concerto, plural concerti or concertos, since about 1750, a musical composition for instruments in which a solo instrument is set off against an orchestral ensemble. ... Like the sonata and symphony, the concerto is typically a cycle of several contrasting movements integrated tonally and often thematically.

Rondo

Rondo: An instrumental form with a refrain that keeps coming back. Unlike the verses of a song, the music in a rondo changes between each repetition of the refrain.

Oratorio

Oratorio, a large-scale musical composition on a sacred or semisacred subject, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. An oratorio's text is usually based on scripture, and the narration necessary to move from scene to scene is supplied by recitatives sung by various voices to prepare the way for airs and choruses.

Opera

Opera, a staged drama set to music in its entirety, made up of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes

Tone poem

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section (a movement) in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another (non-musical) source is illustrated or evoked.

Serial music

In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, though some of his contemporaries were also working to establish serialism as a form of post-tonal thinking.

Musical theatre

Development of musical theatre refers to the historical development of theatrical performance combined with music that culminated in the integrated form of modern musical theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance

Popular/contemporary songs

Examples of contemporary music include Jazz, Blues, Pop, Rock, Folk, Hip-hop, Metal, Dance music, and Country music. All of these music genres were either formed or well explored in the 1940s and afterward.