Musical Structure/Form

The order and arrangement of the different parts of a piece of music

• Rondo

• Verse

• Form

• Ostinato

A piece of music based on a single melodic idea, it is often repeated by different instruments each time

• Monothematic

• Chorus

• Introduction

• Coda

A piece of music with two main sections

• Rondo

• Ternary

• Binary

• Song Form

A piece of music with three sections, the third is a return to the first

• Rondo

• Sonata

• Binary

• Ternary

A piece of music with a return to the first section with a different section in between

• Binary

• Rondo

• Sonata

• Ternary

A piece of sung music that consists of a combination of verse and chorus

• Chorus

• Song Form

• Verse

• Form

The same melody with different lyrics each time

• Chorus

• Melody

• Verse

• Song Form

The same melody and lyrics each time

• Chorus

• Verse

• Solo

• Repetition

A section in a song where the singer doesn't perform the melody - often eight bars

• Verse

• Chorus

• Rondo

• Solo

The beginning of a piece of music that occurs before the start of the main musical idea

• Coda

• Introduction

• Theme and Variation

• Riff