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A Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music

Peter Spencer and Peter M. Temko

Learning music’s organizing principles . . . Approaching the study of form as an exercise in perceiving the interaction of a number of discrete musical events, Spencer and Temko’s book embodies much more than a search for visual clues. Students of form develop perceptual tools that allow them to proceed from the aural experience to an understanding of the arch-principles upon which music is organized. The authors hold that the organizing principles of a given piece of music may be gleaned from studying the internal attributes that give a section its specific identity, the functional relations between sections, and the ordering of those sections.

$36.95 list, 215 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-806-0

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-806-5

© 1988

Table of Contents

Part I. FUNDAMENTAL ANALYTICAL TOOLS

1. Structural Phenomena

2. Structural Units

3. Structural Functions

Part II. PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES

4. The Binary Principle

5. The Ternary Principles

6. Imitative Procedures

7. Variation Procedures

8. The Binary Principle: Sonata-Allegro Form

9. The Rondo Principle

10. Atypical Formal Organization