ABSTRACT
This chapter presents musical processes, repetition and variation, binary form, and rounded binary form ternary form. There may or may not be that many ways of looking at musical form, but three are worthy of our attention. One is through examination of a work’s motivic content. Another addresses the similarity and contrast that create a work’s sectional divisions. A third considers the musical processes a composer has employed. The chapter looks at every section of music, every passage, in fact every musical moment, and aims to characterize it as a repetition of some thing, a variation/extension/development of something, or something completely new. It attempts to understand a complete composition as an outgrowth of basic choices can be called motivic analysis. Each of the musical processes has distinct qualities that affect the listener in different ways.
