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Larger Forms

New Challenge for Listening Assignment No. 5

Morning In The City

Vivaldi Spring Concerto



Kennedy performs "Spring" First movement (of three)
Most involved, while your mind is fresh.
FormÉ
Abbreviation for Formal / Formula
Repetition, Variation, Contrast
Longer pieces require more repetition (or reminders) of the main theme

Main Theme
Contrast when soloist(s) play the birds
Theme returns
Contrast with brook and breeze
Theme returns in a minor key - VARIATION
Contrast with thunderstorm / soloist section
Repetition when birds return after thunderstorm
Theme returns at the end - EXACTLY as it was heard in the beginningÉRepetition
Closure.

Key is important
Starts off in home key
Brook and breeze changes key. Theme returns in minor key.
Thunderstorm new key
Birds return, gradually returns us to original key.

Map form:
A theme
B soloist (birds) (C)
A1 theme (shorter) (V)
C brook, wind section (C)
A2 theme (minor key) (V)
D soloist (thunderstorm) soloist (C)
B1 soloist (birds return) (V)
A theme returns at end like the beginning (R)
ABACADA = Rondo Form
Shorter forms to longer forms:
Binary form AA BB or (A)(B) - parentheses are to indicate a section played twice
Bach Bourree AABB
Sammartini Symphony in F, Binary form, but the A comes back at the end. Then repeated.
AA BA BA or (A) (BA) (BA)
Later masters like Mozart use this form from the "Ugly Duckling" Period and refine it. AABA