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Would you like to study the forms and structures of music? Music, after all, is both an art and a science. It is not as simple as it seems to listeners, as he goes about his listening pleasure. Maybe this topic interests you as much as I am.

If so, I would certainly be willing to recommend an extremely interesting and informative book to you. The one who taught me a lot more than I could ever have believed. It is very complete, the book is:

“Form in Music – A Review of Traditional Techniques of Musical Structure and Their Application in Historical and Contemporary Styles” by Wallace Berry, professor at Michigan University of Music; Publishers Prentice Hall Incorporated; Englewood Cliffs, NJ; 1966. The number of the Library of Congress catalog card is; 66-12872.

“What is form in music? It is the product of intellectual control over the musical ideas that give rise to composition.” Says the author and this is the subject of this book, and it is written in a textbook like fashion. You will learn about the binary form and the famous historical musicians who used it the best. You will discover the smallest of musical structure units.

There are chapters on simple ternary, compound ternary, rondo, sonata, ostinato and variations. By the end of this book, you will have learned all about the structure of music and understand what it takes to use that knowledge to compose, polish, modify, knowing what will work in advance, and why.

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Source by Lance Winslow