Lesson video

Good morning, everybody.

How are you doing? I hope you're having an amazing day.

Welcome to the second music lesson about music structure.

And as I said, at the first lesson, we're going to start with a simple warmup, can I have hands on your shoulders? Ready? One more time.

Faster.

Well done.

Today in our lesson, we're going to need an exercise book or paper, a pencil and big smiles and good fun.

Because we're going to take a look at what we learned last lesson.

We learned about musical form.

What is musical form? Musical form is the way that we organise music.

What about binary form? What is it? Binary form is the form that has only two sections, A and B.

So now that we remember what we did last time, let's learn more.

Today, we're going to introduce the ternary form.

What is ternary form? If binary form means two, what does ternary mean? We're going to learn about ternary structure what it looks like.

And together, we're going to take a look at some examples of ternary form and how to identify its element.

So ternary form.

What is it? It's a music form that consists of three sections.

Ternary form can be found in music from Middle Ages, to the present day.

Ternary form can also be called song form.

And just like the binary form there is two types of ternary form, simple and compound not rounded this time.

So let's take a look at the simple ternary form structure.

Simple ternary from structure can also be called da capo aria or aria da capo.

It has three sections which we call ABA.

Binary form rounded also had ABA.

But the ABA from ternary it's separate and the BNA they're not meant to be on the same repeating section just like in the rounded binary form.

Also just like the binary form section B contrasts and it makes a difference from the section a.

So if we put it in letters it would look just like this, A, B, A.

And just like the binary form, these sections repeat themselves.

So let's take a look to a more complex structure from the ternary form, which is the compound.

It can also be called trio form.

It's a binary form of AB, where, as we said it repeats its sections twice, always coming back to the AE, leaving it as A.

Leaving it as AA, BB, AA.

But inside the sections, here's the catch.

There are subsections, as you can see in the picture.

Inside the big A, there is A-B-A, inside the big B, there is a C-D-C.

And inside the last A, it repeats the same as the first A, A-B-A.

So the big A can be called minuet and the B can be called trio.

Now this is more complex.

So we're going to take it easy.

Write down the sections and let's take a look now.

Two examples of simple ternary form.

By the hand of our friend again, Robert Schumann, with a song called "Wider writer" again from the album, "For the Young", let's have a listen.

A very short song, but the beautiful one.

So much faster than the first one that we heard.

So together, let's identify the sections of the simple ternary structure that this piece of music has.

A, B, it changes.

Going back to the first musical idea.

Was quite fast, not easy to spot but quite simple for us to hear and identify A-B-A.

A.

A, again.

And now B, And back, So at home, have another listen and let's see if you can do it by yourself.

Now we're going to listen to a more tricky one, because now we enter to the compound ternary form by the hand of Fredrick Chopin, The Polonaise OPUS 40, number one.

Let's have a listen together.

Did you hear the change between the A section and the B section? If you hear it, well done you, because this is not easy.

And you're such a great job.

Now this is a four minute piece, so it's a long piece.

So that means that we need to focus so much that we're going to do it together again.

And we're going to slowly show the sections of this long Polonaise.

Before we heard the A section and half of the B section.

But let's together try to work out when do we go back to A.

A.

Repeats A.

This is B within A.

Back to A, within the big A.

B section.

This is the small C.

Repeat small C.

Repeat C again.

New material, we call D, small D within B.

Back to small C.

C, again.

Back to A finally.

The big A, and the small A.

Small B within the big A.

Back to A.

Listening to Frederic Chopin.

Amazing.

Well done you, for identifying all the sections of this complex and tricky, Polonaise op.

40 no.

1 by Frederic Chopin.

Now what to do at home.

Let's leave Chopin on the side for next lesson.

But for now let's rewind and listen to the album for The Young, from Robert Schumann.

Can you identify the sections? It has lots of songs.

So you may want to take a look at the ones that we learned or maybe some new ones and write it down, jot it down, explore, have fun, because this is what we do with music, we have fun.

So I hope you have an amazing day.

You will explore more songs and you will find out more about binary and ternary form.

♪ Have a lovely day ♪.