The Relationship between Music Form and Genre

"Form" and "genre" are two different concepts. The musical form takes the structure of musical works as the research object, and studies the division of the structure of musical works and the relationship between various elements that constitute each structural part. Music genre generally refers to various styles and categories of music, and the concept is uncertain.

Brief introduction of musical form

Melody is not an independent music discipline, but a one-sided understanding of the "form" of music works, which is formed by combining many factors such as music history, music aesthetics, composition techniques and humanistic characteristics in different regions.

Therefore, when learning musical forms, we should not only analyze the musical score, but also understand it comprehensively and in many directions.

For those who study music creation, it needs to be reminded that music form and music content are complementary and mutually advancing. Although the musical form can make the work more expressive, it is the musical content that determines the structure of the musical form after all.

There is always pop music first, and then the corresponding music form is born. I can't compose music to fill some music forms, or I am limited by mature music forms, so I dare not make bold innovations when I create.

Second, genre introduction.

Genre is a Chinese vocabulary, and pinyin is t ǐ cá i, which refers to the types and styles of all artistic works. Its artistic structure has a certain stable form in history, and it has developed with the diversity of art reflecting reality and the aesthetic tasks put forward by artists in their works.

(China ancient literature) the style and rhetoric of two-finger poems; The style of three-finger literature; Four-finger font structure; Five finger system; Six refers to demeanor, posture and style.

Comparison principle between musical form category and musical form

First, the category of musical form.

Music forms can be divided into two categories according to traditional music, small forms and large forms. Small ones are one, two, three, two and three. Large-scale musical forms include variations, Rondo, sonata, divertimento and freestyle.

Professor Yang Ruhuai, a Chinese music theorist, divides music forms into juxtaposition, reproduction, composition, cycle, variation and sonata, ",polyphony, divertimento and tassel".

Second, the principle of musical form comparison

The progress, conflict and emotional change of music all come from comparison-strong and weak, strings and woodwinds, fast and slow, major and minor, and so on. , thus promoting and expanding musical thinking. There are many musical materials in the works that are in contrast, and their differences in melody form, rhythm type and emotional characteristics bring fresh feelings to the listeners.

There are always some comparative factors in a work. Large-scale works will have a wider range of contrast and more materials for comparison. Relatively speaking, the contrast range of small-scale works will be smaller, and there will not be so much material.