Music A-Level
Extended Forms
What Extended Forms means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Extended Forms
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Reference: AQA
Structures beyond the standard 12-bar blues or 32-bar AABA, often expanding standard forms or creating multi-movement suites.
Topics that use Extended Forms
- Area of study 5: Jazz - Named artists (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Big Band Orchestration
- Genre fusion
- Harmonic innovation
- Harmonic Substitution and Contrafacts
- Modal jazz
- The 'Ellington Effect'
- Advanced rhythmic and harmonic structures
- Bebop Characteristics
Using Extended Forms in the exam
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