Week 6 Phrases and Motives lesson 3

 
Phrase and motives 

A Motiv is a leading phrase or figure that is reproduced and varied through the course of a composition or movement.

A phrase is a substantial musical thought, which ends with musical punctuation called a cadence. Phrases are created in music through an interaction of melody, harmony, and rhythm. 


                                                   



                                                              The sentence and the period 

A period is one type of theme, like the sentence, common to the Classical style. Unlike the sentence, which exhibits a single cadence, the period contains two cadences, a weak one to end the antecedent and a strong one to end the consequent.





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Voice Leading Augmented Sixth Chords






A sentence in music is a phrase with a specific melodic construction: a melodic idea (motive 1 or subphrase a) is either repeated or sequenced then followed by either related or unrelated material leading to a cadence.


Phrase rhythm is the rhythmic aspect of phrase construction and the relationships between phrases, and "is not at all a cut-and-dried affair, but the very lifeblood of music and capable of infinite variety.


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