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Lessons in Music Form

CHAPTER IX
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27, measure 12; No.

34, measure 10.
Another indication of the Part-form is a palpable change in melodic character in passing from one Part into the next; sufficient to denote a more striking "new beginning" than marks the announcement of a new _phrase_ only.

The change, however, is as a rule _not very marked_; it is sometimes, in fact, so slight as to be no more than simply palpable, though scarcely definable on the page.

For these divisions are, after all, the several "Parts" of one and the same song-form, and, therefore, any such radical change in melodic or rhythmic character, or in general style, as would make each Part appear to be a _wholly independent_ musical idea (subject or theme), would be manifestly inconsistent.
Generally, both these factors (cadence and melody) unite to define the end of one Part and the beginning of the next.

Should either one be feeble, or absent, the other factor will be all the more pronounced.
Thus, the cadence of Part One may be less decisive, if the change in melodic character at the beginning of Part Two is well marked; this is seen in No.


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