Lesson 14

[stevel]

Maestro, I don't know if this is again a terminology difference, but when we speal of form, we mean:

Binary Form
Ternary Form
Sonata Form
Theme and Variations Form
Arch Form
12-Bar Blues Form, etc.

What you're listing is usually called "texture". Examples of textures are:

Monophony
Heterophony
Homophony
(of which Homorythm is a specialized subset)
Polyphony, which is usually synonymous with Counterpoint, though Contrapuntal, Imitative, Canonic, and even Fugal are considered types of Polyphonic texture.

A little more investigation might be in order.

Supportively,
Steve

[MaestroX]

That part of the lesson is referring to style within forms.

I wanted to give a brief overview on textures as some forms and textures are inevitably fused such as fugue and counterpoint and imitation and canon.

[stevel]

Originally Posted by stevel

Maestro, I don't know if this is again a terminology difference, but when we speal of form, we mean:

Binary Form
Ternary Form
Sonata Form
Theme and Variations Form
Arch Form
12-Bar Blues Form, etc.

What you're listing is usually called "texture". Examples of textures are:

Monophony
Heterophony
Homophony
(of which Homorythm is a specialized subset)
Polyphony, which is usually synonymous with Counterpoint, though Contrapuntal, Imitative, Canonic, and even Fugal are considered types of Polyphonic texture.

A little more investigation might be in order.

Supportively,
Steve

I should add that of course, style usually refers to genres like "classical" "jazz" and "pop", etc. Country music might be said to be a style within the pop genre. Genre has a lot of historical baggage associated with the word, but usually it refers to a type of piece. For instance, really, Fugue is not a form. Fugue is a genre. Fugues have a ternary form, and it's very specific, thus we might call it "Fugal form". But Piano Sonatas are a Genre, of which a movment might be in Sonata Form, which may be written in a "Antique Style" (Stile Antico) which may be of a Polyphonic Texture.

So there's some overlap there, but Style generally does not refer to the "texture".

Steve

[MaestroX]

You bring up some good points. I think this is due to the opionionated nature that one can get into when writing these. Of course, if there was more than one person writing these, then it will be of great benefit as the material would become more solid, more rounded to the point.

I'll work towards refining some of these lessons once i've got some more time on my hands.

Thanks