Rounded binary
Opening material returns at the end of the B section
Liquidation
Take a whole motive and use a fragment of it to come to a cadence
Binary form
Two parts
Double period
A set of 4 phrases where closure is withheld until the very end
Parallel period
Made up of two similar phrases
Simple binary
All new thematic material in the B section
Period Structure
A pair of phrases where the second phrase comes to stronger closure than the first
Continuous
Tonally open at the end of the A section
Sectional
Tonal closure at the end of the A section
Balanced binary
There is similar material at the end of each section
Simple ternary
Not compound ternary
Sentence
A particular kind of phrase that has two things
- Formal proportions of 1 to 1 to 2
- Thematic pattern of motive, repetition, and liquidation
Contrasting period
Made up of two different phrases
Ternary form
3 parts
4 criteria
- pattern of repeat signs
- does the B section come to tonal closure (if it is tonally closed then it is in favor of ternary)
- proportions
- does the B section compliment or contrast the A section
