Musical Forms
Musical Forms In music, the musical form in its generic sense designates both a musical structure and a writing tradition that allows placing the musical work in the history of the evolution of musical creation. I'm Chris Nolasce and today I'm going to talk about musical forms. Structure and gender The concept of form can not be learned directly. Only listening to the work, its development over time, allows perception. Historically, the composer who titled a work relating it to a precise form could refer indistinctly to its generic aspects (that is, to its destination), or its musical structure (that is, its architecture), or even both at the same time. time, generic aspects and structural aspects, since they are often imbricated. It is what has naturally produced a semantic slip, and many terms that designate different forms - motet, fugue, aria, rondo, etc. - they have been covered with different meanings, sometimes close to the concept of musical genre, other ...