Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music

Learning music¿s organizing principles . . . Approaching the study of form as an exercise in perceiving the interaction of a number of discrete musical events, Spencer and Temko¿s book embodies much more than a search for visual clues. Students of form develop perceptual tools that allow them to proceed from the aural experience to an understanding of the arch-principles upon which music is organized. The authors hold that the organizing principles of a given piece of music may be gleaned from studying the internal attributes that give a section its specific identity, the functional relations between sections, and the ordering of those sections.Peter M. Temko is the author of 'Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music', published 1994 under ISBN 9780881338065 and ISBN 0881338060.