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3: What even is form?

3: What even is form?

Update: 2022-05-03

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To navigate the terrain of classical music, you need some trail markers, and that’s where form comes in. It’s the underlying structure of the way things happen in music. Composers today don’t always want to follow the age-old rules of form. How do our composers think about form as they work on their pieces?

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3: What even is form?

3: What even is form?

melissa smey, kate soper, vijay iyer, oscar bettison