avs:Form (2019-09-16)

DDEX Data Dictionary for Allowed Value Sets, 2019-09-16

avs:Form

The form of music.

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Belongs to Class	AllowedValueSet	A Set of allowed values.
AVS Members	Adagio	Played slowly.
	Allemande	Dance that emerged in 16th-century France as a supposed imitation of a now forgotten German dance (hence the name, French for 'German dance)'. The original Allemande form was in duple meter and at a moderate tempo. Later versions of the Allemande were in quadruple meter and of a wider variety of tempi, and even later variations were in triple meter. Allemande is characterized by a lack of syncopation, the combination of short motifs into longer melodic units, and contrasts of tone and motif.
	Aria	Piece from an opera, oratorio, or cantata written for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment.
	ArtSong	A vocal music composition written for a vocal soloist and piano accompaniment in the classical art music tradition. Operatic songs, folk/traditional songs, orchestral songs, and songs which include instruments other than piano are not usually considered art songs unless they are arrangements of art songs originally written for voice and piano accompaniment.
	Bagatelle	Short piece of music, typically for the piano, and usually of a light, mellow character.
	Ballade	Song setting of a literary ballad or narrative poem, or a one-movement instrumental piece with narrative qualities reminiscent of such a setting.
	Ballata	An Italian musical form that was prominent from the late 13th century to the 15th century. It uses the musical structure AbbaA, and some longer ballate use the form AbbaAbbaA. Early ballate are monophonic, while some later ballate are written for two or three voices.
	Barcarolle	Traditional Italian folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers. It is typically in 6/8 or 12/8 at a moderate tempo, with rhythm reminiscent of a gondolier's stroke.	Parent: Dance
	Bolero	Slow-tempo Spanish ballroom dance and accompanying musical form that originated in the late 18th century. It is in 3/4 time.	Parent: Dance
	CanCan	Lively French dance of obscure origin. It became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s. Fast and in 2/4, the Can-Can was initially danced to music written for the galop and for its likely progenitor, the quadrille. Music written specifically for the Can-Can began to emerge in the mid-19th century.	Parent: Dance
	Canon	Makes use of a contrapuntal compositional technique that repeats a melody among several voices, with each melody repetition offset from the prior one by a given duration.
	Cantata	Vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment. It is typically made up of several movements and often involves a choir. The term emerged in the early 17th century. There are significant differences between cantatas of different musical eras.
	Canzona	Songlike instrumental form of Italian origin from the 16th and 17th centuries. Many early canzoni were instrumental arrangements of chansons, though the genre took on more of its own character in the late 16th century, when two major varieties of Canzona emerged and took on their own distinctive attributes - those written for keyboard, and those written for instrumental ensemble.
	Caprice	Relatively free form. Typically fast, intense, virtuosic, and lively.
	Carol	A festive song - typically in celebration of a seasonal or sacred topic - which features alternating verses and choruses and a dancelike character.
	Cavatina	A simple, melodious, songlike composition.
	Chaconne	Originally a Spanish dance in the early 17th century, the term now defines a musical piece made up of a series of variations over a short repeated bass or chordal pattern.
	Chanson	Lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular.
	Concerto	Instrumental piece of music that contrasts a solo instrument or small group of instruments against an orchestra.
	Courante	Triple-time dance movement often used as the second dance in Baroque dance suites.
	Dance	Any piece of music written for dancing, or in the style of music intended for dancing.	Child: Barcarolle Child: Bolero Child: CanCan Child: Mazurka Child: Polonaise Child: Waltz
	Divertimento	An instrumental composition, generally lighthearted and written for performance by a small ensemble.
	Dumka	A Slavic lament or folk ballad typically melancholic with contrasting lively sections.
	Estampie	Medieval dance and musical form from the 13th and 14th centuries. It can be instrumental or vocal, and is typically monophonic. It is made of a series of repeated sections, each repetition of a particular section differentiated from its earlier occurrence only by its ending.
	Etude	Short, difficult instrumental composition, often centering around a particular musical technique. Written to provide practice material for performers.
	Fanfare	Short musical flourish played by trumpets and/or other brass instruments, sometimes with percussion. The term may also denote such a flourish as part of a larger work, such as an orchestral composition.
	Fantasy	Musical composition with roots in improvisation. Follows no strict musical form.
	Fugue	Style of composition that utilizes two or more voices and is built on a subject (main melodic theme) and constant repetition of that subject at different pitches and in different voices. Typically made up of an exposition, or successive statements of the subject in each voice, development, or a series of alternating episodes (elaborations on previous melodic material) and entries (restatement of the subject in related keys), and a final statement of the subject in the tonic key.
	Furiant	Bohemian art music in 3/4 time with strong accents forming pairs of beats.
	Galliard	Lively courtly dance of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Usually in triple meter.
	Gigue	Fast dance, generally in compound duple meter. It often features a contrapuntal texture and accents on the third beat of the bar. Typically the final dance in an instrumental Baroque dance suite.
	Hymn	A song of praise.
	Improvisation	Improvised piece of music.
	Interlude	Passage of music between distinct sections of a composition or stage work.
	Intermezzo	There are several distinct meanings. In the Renaissance, an Intermezzo was a short musical theater performance, usually on a mythological or pastoral subject, that took place between the acts of a comic play. In the 18th century, an Intermezzo was a comic operatic interlude placed between acts or scenes of an opera seria. In the 19th century, the term Intermezzo began to be used also to describe instrumental works, as either a movement between two others in a larger work, or a standalone character piece.
	Laude	The major form of sacred folk song in late medieval and Renaissance Italy. It remained popular into the 19th century. Laude were likely influenced by the music of the troubadours, and are characterized by their simplicity and ease of understanding. Laude is the plural form and lauda is the singular.
	Lied	A german art song written for voice and piano accompaniment, typically from the romantic period.
	Madrigal	Secular vocal music form of the Renaissance and early Baroque. Features two to eight voices Most are through-composed. Typically polyphonic and unaccompanied by instruments.
	March	Features strong regular rhythm. Written for or in the vein of a military band marching. Most typically played at a tempo of 120 to match the steps of a group of marchers (except for in the British style, which is traditionally slower).
	Mass	Choral composition featuring liturgical text set to music. Of a form originally for the celebration of the Christian Eucharist, especially in the Roman Catholic Church, though secular examples exist, such as Bernstein's MASS.
	Mazurka	A Polish folk dance in triple meter, at a lively tempo and with strong accents frequently placed on the second or third beat.	Parent: Dance
	Melodie	A French art song similar to the German lied. It differs from a Chanson in that a Chanson is closely related to popular/folk music and Mélodie is strictly in the art music tradition.
	Minimal	Uses limited musical materials.
	Minuet	Two-person French social dance, typically in 3/4 time, and a musical style that accompanies the dance (and which later acquired its own life apart from the dance). Usually in binary form, with two (typically eight bar) repeated sections.
	MomentForm	A term conceived of by Karlheinz Stockhausen to describe music made up of 'a mosaic of moments', or music in which a clear narrative curve is avoided.
	Motet	A piece of music in several parts with words. Typically particularly complex or refined. Can be of a wide array of forms and styles. Especially prominent from the 13th century through the early 18th century.
	Nocturne	Inspired by or evocative of the night.
	Overture	Initially a term describing an instrumental introduction to an opera. In the Romantic era, Overture came to additionally describe standalone programmatic instrumental works.
	Partita	Effectively a synonym of 'dance suite'.
	Passacaglia	Of a serious character, often based around a bass ostinato and written in triple meter.
	Pavane	Slow duple meter processional dance that was common in Europe during the 16th century and early 17th century.
	PerpetuumMobile	Either a piece of music characterized by a continuous stream of notes, usually at a rapid tempo, or a piece meant to be played in a repetitious fashion, often an indefinite number of times.
	Polonaise	Triple meter dance of Polish origin.	Parent: Dance
	Prelude	Short piece of music of an improvisatory nature. Typically an introduction to succeeding, longer and more complex movements, though many preludes of the Romantic era were standalone works.
	Raga	Improvisatory performance of Indian classical music according to any of a wide number of specific melodic frameworks, or ragas.
	Rhapsody	One-movement episodic instrumental composition with indefinite form and an improvisatory feel, featuring a range of highly contrasting moods, colors and tonalities.
	Ricercar	A late Renaissance and early Baroque instrumental composition that explores the permutations of a given motif and 'searches out' the key or mode of a following piece of music. It is an early kind of fugue, of a serious character and featuring a subject with long note lengths. Another kind of Ricercar, referred to as such until the mid-16th century, is a homophonic piece of music similar to a toccata that later came to simply be called a toccata.
	Rondo	Principal theme alternates with one or more contrasting themes. Common Rondo patterns of the Classical period include ABA, ABACA, and ABACABA.
	Saltarello	Musical dance form that originated in Italy. Played in a fast triple meter.
	Sarabande	Triple meter dance and accompanying musical form that originated in Latin America and spread to Europe in the 16th century.
	Scherzo	Developed out of and eventually replaced the minuet as the third or second movement of symphonies, string quartets, sonatas, and other similar works. Quicker than the minuet, the Scherzo retains its triple meter and ternary form (the Scherzo itself is a rounded binary form, but is generally played with an accompanying trio and a repeat of the Scherzo, making the whole thing ternary form, as in the minuet and trio).
	Sequence	Chant or hymn with a structure dominated by couplets, sung or recited during the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist, prior to the Gospel.
	Serenade	In the Classical and Romantic eras, a work for large instrumental ensemble containing four to ten movements, somewhere between a dance suite and a symphony, and typically of a calm or light character. In older usage, the term Serenade denoted a musical greeting performed for a lover or someone else to be honored, and in the Baroque era, it denoted a celebratory or eulogistic dramatic cantata for at least two singers and orchestra, typically performed outdoors in the evening.
	SinfoniaConcertante	Classical-era orchestral work in several movements in which a group of two or more soloists are contrasted against the full orchestra.
	Sonata	Instrumental work for keyboard and sometimes one additional instrument. Typically in 3 or 4 movements, with the first movement in sonata form. Sonata form consists of three distinct sections - an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation.
	Sonatina	Short or technically easy sonata.
	Suite	An ordered set of instrumental pieces of music grouped together as one larger piece of music.
	SymphonicPoem	Piece of orchestral music in one continuous movement which evokes a non-musical source of inspiration, such as a poem or painting.
	Symphony	Extended, multi-movement work for orchestra. Often in four movements (though not always), with the first movement in sonata form.
	Tarantella	Fast dance, typically in 6/8, originating in the Southern Italian town of Taranto.
	Tiento	Formally analogous to the fantasy or ricercar, and typically written for organ. Originated in Spain in the mid-15th century. Often imitative to some degree, though not to the same degree of complexity of a fugue.
	Toccata	Instrumental piece for a keyboard or plucked string instrument, typically written to showcase a player's virtuosity.
	Variation	Involves varied repetition of a theme.
	Vocalise	Vocal work without words.
	Waltz	Triple time dance that originated among German-speaking peasants. In the 19th century, it was the most popular ballroom dance in Europe.	Parent: Dance
	TwelveBarBlues	I7 (4 bars) -> IV7 (2 bars) -> I7 (2 bars) -> V7 (1 bar) -> IV7 (1 bar) -> I7 (2 bars)
	EightBarBlues	8-bar Blues uses the same family of chords (I7, IV7, and V7) as 12-bar Blues, though there are more variations of 8-bar Blues than of the more rigid 12-bar format.
	Ballad	Slow, sentimental song.
	PowerBallad	Song formula used by rock bands. Combines hard-hitting rock instrumentation with a more delicate performance style typified by slower tempos, emotional lyrics, and lots and lots of hair.
	Rag	Any piece of ragtime music. Named for its 'ragged' rhythm.
	RhythmChanges	Chord changes based on the composition 'I Got Rhythm' by George Gershwin. Adopted as a common chord progression for jazz songs.
	VerseOnly	[missing definition]
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