Main music themes: “Period”.
Main music themes: “Period”.
The period refers to certain types of recurrence in small-scale formal structure. It also has TWO phrases called Antecedent and Consequent.
The antecedent contains Basic Idea and Contrasting Idea, while the consequent phrase brings a return of the Basic idea followed by a new contrasting idea. It is very important to defferentiate the period from the sentence. Unlike the sentence, which exhibits a single cadence, the period contains TWO CADENCES, a weak one to end the antecedent and a strong one to end the consequent.
This way, the period is characterized by balance and symmetry.
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