compositional form with two sections, in which the second ends with a return to material from the first, each section is usually repeated
Rounded binary
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Rondo
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an instrumental form in which the first or main section is repeated between subsidiary sections and to conclude the piece; us…
Riddle canon
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a canon in which the composer has left it to the performer to choose at which point and at which pitch the following voice(s)…
Repeated Sequence of Two Notes
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see Repeated Notes, Sequences, & Passages
Ballade
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thirteenth , fourteenth and fifteenth century formes fixes, a strophic piece, each stanza having an initial repeated section…
Binary form
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a musical form made up of two sections sometimes termed A and B
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…
First ending
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where a section is repeated, the composer may wish to vary the sectional ending, whether first ending or second ending, as a…