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Understanding Musical Forms and Textures

The document discusses different musical textures and forms. It uses examples like types of sandwiches to illustrate thin and thick textures. Round singing and partner singing are provided as examples of how to make the texture of music thicker. Unison singing is given as an example of a thin texture. The document also discusses musical forms like unity form, strophic form, binary form and ternary form.

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Understanding Musical Forms and Textures

The document discusses different musical textures and forms. It uses examples like types of sandwiches to illustrate thin and thick textures. Round singing and partner singing are provided as examples of how to make the texture of music thicker. Unison singing is given as an example of a thin texture. The document also discusses musical forms like unity form, strophic form, binary form and ternary form.

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Texture and

Forms
Musical Textures – often
woven in a song and it is in this
weaving that helps create the
thinness and thickness of a
song.
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You can think of texture like a
sandwich. The more ingredients you
put on your sandwich, the more flavor
you will taste in one bite. A grilled
cheese sandwich can represent a thin
texture, while a clubhouse sandwich
can represent a thick texture.
How to make the sound of music
thicker?

Singing together by starting one after


the other.

ROUND SINGING
PARTNER
SINGING
Round song – when two or more
people or groups sing the same
melody but start at a different time. It
is like a follow-the-leader style of
singing.
Partner Song – another way of
making the texture of music thicker
is by singing two songs at the same
time. Sing together and listen to the
blending of the different pitches the
two songs.
How to make the sound of music
thin?

Singing the same melody at the same


time.

UNISON SINGING
Music with the
Different and
Same Phrases
Can be represented by symbols to show the design
Musical lines of a song

phrases

Same or different

The design of a song will depend on how same or


different phrases are arranged in a song.
Musical
Form
The basic structure or design of a piece of
Musical Form music

DIFFERENT MUSICAL FORM

STROPHIC FORM

UNITY FORM
BINARY FORM

TERNARY FORM
UNITY FORM
- Simplest musical form
- It contains only one section which remains the same
all throughout the composition
STROPHIC
FORM
- All the verses and stanzas are sung to the same music
- The repetition is labeled letter A
BINARY FORM

- Has two parts labeled A and B


- It is called two part form
- The main section or idea is labeled A and
the contrast section or idea is labeled B
TERNARY
FORM
- Has three parts or sections (beginning – ending
– return) with the third section being similar to
the first.
- This form is called three part form
- It has one main idea (A), one contrasting idea
(B) and a repetition of the main idea (A).
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT 4.1

Directions: Read the statements carefully. Write TRUE or FALSE.

1. The two sample songs ‘’Are you Sleeping’’ and ‘’Row, Row Your Boat’’, when sung
together, are called partner songs.
2. Unison singing would result in a thicker texture than round singing.
3. A song with ABA form has two different sections and ends with the first section.
4. Musical lines can also be called phrases.
5. Singing partner songs is also another way of making the texture of music thicker.
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT NO. 1

Answer:
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. True
Scaffold 1

Tell whether the phrases of ‘’Li’l Liza Jane’’ are the same or different

Different

Different
Scaffold 1

Same

Same
Thank You

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