Form and Style

The arrangement, relationship, or organization of elements in music is called

• tone
• form
• symmetry
• texture

A musical composition takes on its form through

• modulation and returning to the tonic key.
• meter and tempo.
• variation of melody and rhythm.
• repetition and contrast

What is the main skill involved in hearing form in music?

• singing
• memory
• pitch identification
• rhythm

In a piece of music that can be diagrammed as A B A, the A indicates _________, and the B indicates _________.

• contrast; repetition
• repetition; contrast
• variation; contrast
• constrast; variation

Letter diagrams are least useful for showing

• contrast
• repetition
• the specific changes in the music that the letters stand for
• the overall form

Which diagram shows the greatest amount of musical contrast?

• A B C
• A B A
• A A' A'' A'''
• A B A

The genre of a musical work can be determined by its:

• Period in history
• Form, Text, Performing forces, and function
• composer
• meter, key, and tempo

The individual style of a particular composer is described in terms of:

• the style of the era in which the composer worked.
• writings by the composer about music.
• the life and environment of the composer.
• the way the composer handles musical elements