Musical Form

What do you call the catchy bit of a song that everyone remembers and that repeats?

• verse

• chorus

What do we call the way music is organized into sections?

• Notes

• Form

• Oranges

When naming the sections of a musical form, do you label each part with numbers or letters?

• numbers

• letters

This is a special kind of form that uses the pattern ABACA for it's sections.

• ABA

• Theme and Variation

• Rondo

Which one of the answers is NOT a form?

• 12345

• AABA

• ABA

What Form is represented by the pattern of shapes you see here?

• AABA

• ABA

• ABACA

This is the part of a song that does NOT repeat. It is not the most memorable part.

• Verse

• Chorus

What Form does the shape pattern represent?

• ABA

• ABACA / Rondo Form

• Theme and Variations

This is a kind of form in which you play a tune, and then play it again, but embellished (fancier), then play it again even fancier.

• Theme and Variations

• ABA

• ABACA

Why do we need to organize music into forms?

• Because people like repetition.

• Because it makes it easier to write down.

• Both answers A and B