where a section is repeated, the composer may wish to vary the sectional ending, whether first ending or second ending, as a way of creating symmetry between antecedent and consequent phrases or simply in order to extend the composition see in Repeats, D.S.,D.C…
First ending
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Expression marks
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indications in a musical score where the composer wish changes in the dynamics, tempo or mood
Antecedent
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the subject of a fugue or canon; the first phrase of a musical period; the first of a pair of musical statements, termed ante…
Ballade
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thirteenth , fourteenth and fifteenth century formes fixes, a strophic piece, each stanza having an initial repeated section…
Cancrizans
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a tune repeated so that the original order of notes is reversed the last note become the first, the penultimate note becomes…
Clos
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a cadence in which the last note sounds conclusive; that note, termed the 'final', which is the central note of the melody; t…
Rounded binary
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compositional form with two sections, in which the second ends with a return to material from the first, each section is usua…
Ternary form
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a three section form in which the first section A is repeated, often with some changes, after a middle section B, thus the fo…
Open form
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a work in which the performer decides which order to play the material, where to start and where to stop