1. Musical Form
The Road Map
of
Music

2. Musical Form
•Musical form is the structural outline in a song or
piece.
•Like an architect’s ground plan for a house or
building.
•The composer keeps this in mind when he/she begins
to write a song or piece.

3. Single Forms
A A′ A″ (Variation Form)
A B (Binary Form)
A B A (Ternary Form)
A B A C A (Rondo Form)
A B A C A B A (Rondo-Sonata Form)

4. Assignment
Pick one of the above musical forms to work
with in your song or piece.
Decide which one before you begin. If you
are not sure, start with Binary Form or Ternary
Form.
Remember, the A part of the piece has to be
different from the B part of piece. They must
show contrast.

5. Contrast
A difference, or something that is
different, compared with something else.

6. Listen to the contrast in
timbre of the instruments
Timbre: The quality or color of tone of
an instrument or voice.

7. Expand Your Piece
Introduction A B A Coda(Ending)

8. Tempo
It is always defaults to Andante
(Moderate)=120
Try faster tempos
Allegro(Fast)=145,
Vivace(Lively)=165, Presto(Very Fast)=200
Slower Tempos
Adagio(Slow)=100, Largo(Very Slow)=85

9. Try Panning Your Instruments:
Placing the Instruments in Different
Parts of the Audio Spectrum
Drums in the Center
Metals to the Right
Woods to the Left

10. Dynamics
Use the volume graph for each
track for crescendo and
decrescendo
Crescendo= gradually getting
louder
Decrescendo= gradually
getting softer