Building Music: Phrases and Periods - TWO MINUTE MUSIC THEORY #35

We continue our "Building Music" series, looking at how composers construct music. Today we look at how motifs can be used to construct phrases, and phrases can be used to make periods.

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Hey, I'm Jesse, a composer and music theorist. I believe that Music Theory is a practical and valuable artform for all musicians throughout their lifetime. On this channel, I am making videos to help all musicians grow in their understanding of music theory and how it can make them a better musician.

Music Examples Used:
Beethoven, Symphony 9, mvmt 4
Mozart, Symphony 40, mvmt 1

[kenmare]

Wonderful explanation. Hard to imagine a better one than this. Extremely helpful. Thanks!

[RaviGhai]

Lucid, succinct and efficient … so overall awesome

[renovatioimperii]

You are my savior....thank you so much!

[ArtArchitectureAndAI]

Concise and wonderful explanation with perfect examples resulted into an instance subscribe! You are awesome.

[garrettgengler]

All I can say is excellent job, God bless, and I'll be watching more!

[lilaud]

More content!!!! Learned a lot more than my actual music theory professor from 1st year😢

[susana.tresamantes]

you got yourself a new subscriber at '2 minute...' 😆

[tenajswann]

Hello, I am a singer and I want to write Mordern Rnb, Hip Hop and pop, do you think learning this will make me write better vocal melodies for these genres? if not, do you mind suggesting something else that can set me on the right path?

[brainmaniaru]

Jesse, thanks for your explanation. Could you explain how the form of a song “We are still friends” originally sing by Donny Hathaway and the coveted by Amy Winehouse is organized in terms of QA phrases? Vocal line, thanks in advance! P.S. in modern music the phrasing is a bit more complicated than in classical era?

[loopiloop]

I'd group the "Ode To Joy" example as a 5 note group, a 2 note group, another 5 note group and a final 1 note group. Wouldn't that make the most sense?

[rosaliekruger]

Can you demonstrate a contrasting answer

[Flk]

Yeah, I could have used this in my theory class that just ended this week. Oh well, thanks.

[richardbailey]

I just can't quite get my head around phrases?