Videos and pictures: binary form analysis

On Thursday, we will deal with binary form. You have a handout about this topic. Please refer to this, and to your textbook pp. 498-507 (headings "THE BINARY PRINCIPLE," "BINARY TONAL TYPES," "BINARY FORMAL DESIGNS," and the subheadings "Simple Binary," "Rounded Binary"
and "Balanced Binary").

Read Professor Roig-Francoli's discussion of Binary Forms, and compare with my handout. We talk about the same things, and discuss the same ideas, but we use a few different terms. I think mine are actually a little simpler.

My guess is that this text will be fairly hard to fully comprehend, and it will be impossible to comprehend if you disregard his musical examples 21.4 through 21.8. Set aside a block (or a few blocks) of time to work through the material on your own or with a buddy. Remember that you can find the recordings on the Harmony in Context website student edition (choose Chapter 21 from the drop-down menu)

We will have a brief mini-quiz on this material Thursday. Also, bring devices and headphones for individual/small group analysis exercises.

Video introducing binary form terminology here

Video about Example 21.6a (textbook p. 504) here.

Video about Example 21.7 (textbook pp. 505-506) here.

Video about Example 21.8 (textbook p. 507) here.

See my annotations of his examples below.

Example 21.6a

Example 21.7

Example 21.8