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There is an article on the #wiki about #form (still a draft):
musicgames.wikidot.com/wiki:fo…

It covers structure of both #music and #boardgames and holds two print-and-play decks of cards for form which in our case is marked with:
- letters for repeated parts,
- apostrophes for variation,
- parentheses for optional repetition.

A question for #composers #musicTheory or #musicology people:
Do you know some common reused and describable forms, that may be notated like that? We need a lot!

Added so far:

A black-on-white text with a bullet list: AABA — '32-bar' form (but not necessarily) AB — Binary A AB ABC ABCD — Cumulative (horizontal stacking) (AABB) — Folk (AA'BB') — Folk fancier (AABBCC) — Folk threeparter (AB AB AC AC) — Folky AABB but parts begin the same (AB AB CB CB) — Folky AABB but parts end the same (ABAC ABAC DBDC DBDC) — Folky AABB but parts interrelate ABCCBA — Palindromic ABABCB — Pop with a bridge ABACABA — Rondo (peak) AA(A) — Strophic ABA — Ternary/Song ABCDE — Throughcomposed AA'A''A'''A — Variational framed AB(AB) — Verse/Chorus ABC(ABC) — With a prechorus

On form - Games for Music

musicgames.wikidot.com
#Music #boardgames #Wiki #musictheory #composers #form #musicology
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d10c4n3
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d10c4n3
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acab
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Games for Music wiki / G4M
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@d10c4n3
sure
letters need to appear in order, but may be many:
abc acab - a proper form
abcdefghijk fck ice - another, etc.

but both used not frequently enough..

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youtube.com/watch?v=suCNZe3Gwk…

- YouTube

Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
www.youtube.com
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DavidM_yeg
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Limerick form: A A B B A
Fairly common in short folksong / children’s song or hymns
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DavidM_yeg
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Also ‘sandwich’ (or Swedish 😉) form: A B B A

I realize that these could both be argued as AABA and ABA - 32 bar form respectively, but I think that phrase length is a distinctive features of songs in these forms.

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