Assignment 10: Song Forms

1. What auxiliary member is a passage of some independence appearing between a theme and its repetition or between two parts?

2. What auxiliary member leads to the return of a previously-heard part or theme?

3. What extension repeats one or more figures from the immediately preceding thematic material in sequence and modulation?

4. What auxiliary member is a passage of some independence appearing at the end of a work?

5. What auxiliary member, also at the end of a section or work, is not so independent because it contains material derived from some previous portion of the composition?

6. What are the two functions of a transition?

7. Which of the following does NOT represent a type of song form?
   one-part
   two-part
   three-part
   four-part
   five-part

8. Which of the following does NOT employ the ternary principle? (SF stands for "song form")
   two-part SF
   third rondo form
   SF with trio
   sonata-allegro
   five-part SF

9. On pp. 70-71 Stein describes what he calls an "incipient three-part song form," a designation that emphasizes the ternary characteristics of this hybrid form. But most musicians use another term emphasizing the binary features--and it is this term that I've asked you to use in class. What is this term?

10. Which of the following does NOT represent a typical cadence terminating Part I of a two-part SF?
    PAC in the original key
    HC in the original key
    PC in the original key
    PAC in the key of the dominant
    PAC in a related key

11. What techniques might be used to make an "expanded" two-part SF out of a "simple" two-part SF?
    (a) compound it with another SF to create a SF with trio
    (b) append a codetta to the first part
    (c) repeat both parts of the form
    any of the above
    (a) or (b)
    (b) or (c)
    (a) or (c)

12. Page 6 of Stein's "Anthology of Musical Forms" (AMF) contains three simple two-part song forms. Which one employs "musical rhyme?"
    America
    Robin Adair
    Now Thank We All Our God

13. Which one is NOT in bar form?"
    America
    Robin Adair
    Now Thank We All Our God

14. Mendelssohn's "Venetian Boat Song" (AMF p. 7) is an expanded two-part SF. In which measure does the second part begin?
    m. 16
    m. 18
    m. 26
    m. 30
    m. 35

15. Grieg's "Beside the Cradle" (AMF p. 12) is a three-part SF. In which measure does the third part begin?
    m. 9
    m. 17
    m. 22
    m. 28
    m. 32

16. Brahms's Waltz Op. 39 (AMF p. 13) employs the following schematic |:A:|:BA:| (enlarged three-part SF). In which measure does the second part repeat?
    m. 5
    m. 9
    m. 15
    m. 23
    m. 29

17. Mendelssohn's "Spinning Song" (AMF p. 15) is a five-part SF. Which option accurately completes the following: "Part IV is...
    ...identical to Part II
    ...a transposition of Part II
    ...not analogous to Part II
    ...a development of themes in Part II
    ...itself a complete SF