Making a form map
Mark sections, key areas, cadences and returns using evidence from the score.
- Category
- Form and analysis
- First taught in
- L.3 Transform a theme without losing the long span
- Theory cards
- From form map to decisions (Licentiate)
- A form map from evidence (Fellowship and Concert)
In the lessons
8 lessons and 8 pieces where the Method teaches or uses it, in teaching order.
| Lesson | Lesson and piece |
|---|---|
| L.3 | Transform a theme without losing the long spanBallade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23, Frédéric Chopin |
| L.6 | Join violently contrasting sound worldsBallade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38, Frédéric Chopin |
| L.9 | Trace thematic variation into a dense codaBallade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52, Frédéric Chopin |
| L.10 | Keep the dance inside a large rondoRondo à la mazur in F major, Op. 5, Frédéric Chopin |
| L.11 | Keep a perpetual motion transparentImages, première série: Mouvement, L. 110 / CD 105, Claude Debussy |
| L.12 | Preserve musical direction at concert-study speedÉtude in C-sharp minor, Op. 10 No. 4, Frédéric Chopin |
| C.4 | Keep a theme audible beneath a storm of figurationÉtude in A minor “Winter Wind”, Op. 25 No. 11, Frédéric Chopin |
| C.8 | Carry a twenty-four-piece cycle as one programme identity24 Preludes, Op. 28 — complete cycle, Frédéric Chopin |
In Musicianship
The units whose theory questions ask about it.
| Unit | Title |
|---|---|
| L.3 | Transformed themes |
| C.8 | Extended chords |
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