What is a Sentence? | Forms 101
Channel: The Listener's Guide
Date: 2017-09-30

Musical sentences are the second common kind of phrase structure composers would use in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. How did they work?

For the other main kind of phrase, see our video on periodic phrases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17a3738UOM

And for more on forms, check out the Forms 101 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZknSFDs3leX9gQd0kYlz_IIdEeriQjn4

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Wind Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 103, I. Allegro, by Ludwig van Beethoven and performed by Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Available for download at https://musopen.org/music/download/10098/.