ABSTRACT
This chapter teaches students how to analyze movements in simple, balanced, and rounded binary form as well as small ternary themes. The analytical approach proposed here concentrates on the four formal functions featured in binary-form movements: initiation, continuation, digression, and conclusion. One of the main goals of this lesson plan is to make students more aware of the ubiquity of the binary form in different stylistic eras and to better prepare them for sonata-form analysis.
