rounded binary form
noun
variants
or rounded binary
: a two-part musical form in which the first part modulates to the dominant or relative major and the second part returns to the tonic and recapitulates all or most of the opening section entirely in the tonic
When the opening section of the three-phrase form has a strong cadence on V, it is generally classified as rounded binary form.—
Charles Rosen, Sonata Forms, 1988
Charles Rosen, Sonata Forms, 1988Grieg's highly conventional rounded binary form (two halves, each repeated, with the second incorporating a modified recapitulation of the first) provides the foundation for Ellington's version.—Mervyn Cooke, in The Cambridge Companion to Jazz, 2002
compare binary form, tertiary form
Mervyn Cooke, in The Cambridge Companion to Jazz, 2002Dictionary Entries Near rounded binary form
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