Music GCSE
Contrasting episodes (B, C)
What Contrasting episodes (B, C) means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Contrasting episodes (B, C)
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The passages between statements of the main section, supplying contrast typically through a new melody, key area, texture or mood.
Topics that use Contrasting episodes (B, C)
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Form and structure (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Binary, ternary and rondo plans
- Contrast in the middle section
- Distinction from ternary form
- Exact versus varied repetition
- Exposition, development and recapitulation
- Introduction
- Return of opening material
- Section order and return of material
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