Organising music’s structures: The classification of musical forms in Western art music

This article analyses the classification of musical forms in Western art music. It examines how some sources music domain classify forms, and categorisations complexities inherent within these classifications. table contents from textbooks, treating them as knowledge organisation systems, well analysing descriptions forms. Form is found to be a complicated type information, with an intriguing relationship genre. The analysis classifications reveals five key categorisations: texture, sectionalisation, size structure, definable-ness medium. Various about form are elicited, such form-as-process, whole-part relationships, interesting spectrum definable-ness, dependency on medium texture. rarely discussed form, its approach could usefully extended other subjects.