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==Etymology==

==Etymology==

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] forme, from Anglo-French furme, forme, from [[Latin]] forma form, [[beauty]]

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] forme, from Anglo-French furme, forme, from [[Latin]] forma form, [[beauty]]

*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Century 13th century]

*Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Century 13th century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1 a : the shape and [[structure]] of something as distinguished from its [[material]] b : a [[body]] (as of a [[person]]) especially in its external [[appearance]] or as distinguished from the face : figure c archaic : [[beauty]]

*1 a : the shape and [[structure]] of something as distinguished from its [[material]] b : a [[body]] (as of a [[person]]) especially in its external [[appearance]] or as distinguished from the face : figure c archaic : [[beauty]]

:c : condition suitable for performing (as in athletic competition) <back on form>

:c : condition suitable for performing (as in athletic competition) <back on form>

==Description (Music)==

==Description (Music)==

The term '''musical form''' is often loosely used to refer to particular musical [[genres]] or styles, which may be determined by factors such as [[harmonic]] [[language]], typical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm rhythms], [[types]] of musical instrument used as well as [[historical]] and geographical [[origins]]. In the vocabulary of art-music, however, it has a more extended [[meaning]], referring to the type of "[[architectural]]" [[structure]] on which the music is built. Scholes (1977) explained musical form as a [[series]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy strategies] [[designed]] to find a successful mean between the [[opposite]] extremes of unrelieved repetition and unrelieved alteration.

The term '''musical form''' is often loosely used to refer to particular musical [[genres]] or styles, which may be determined by factors such as [[harmonic]] [[language]], typical [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm rhythms], [[types]] of musical instrument used as well as [[historical]] and geographical [[origins]]. In the vocabulary of art-music, however, it has a more extended [[meaning]], referring to the type of "[[architectural]]" [[structure]] on which the music is built. Scholes (1977) explained musical form as a [[series]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy strategies] [[designed]] to find a successful mean between the [[opposite]] extremes of unrelieved repetition and unrelieved alteration.

Middleton (p. 145) also describes form, presumably after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze Gilles Deleuze]’s ''Difference and Repetition'' (1968, [[translated]] 1994), through repetition and [[difference]]. Difference is the distance moved from a repeat, a repeat being the smallest difference. Difference is [[quantitative]] and [[qualitative]] — how far different and what type of difference.

Middleton (p. 145) also describes form, presumably after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze Gilles Deleuze]’s ''Difference and Repetition'' (1968, [[translated]] 1994), through repetition and [[difference]]. Difference is the distance moved from a repeat, a repeat being the smallest difference. Difference is [[quantitative]] and [[qualitative]] — how far different and what type of difference.

Musical form may be contrasted with [[content]] (the parts) or with [[surface]] (the detail), but there is no clear line dividing them. "Form covers the shape or [[structure]] of the work, content its substance, [[meaning]], [[ideas]], or [[expressive]] effects" (Middleton 1999). In many cases form depends on [[statement]] and restatement, unity and variety, [[contrast]] and [[connection]].

Musical form may be contrasted with [[content]] (the parts) or with [[surface]] (the detail), but there is no clear line dividing them. "Form covers the shape or [[structure]] of the work, content its substance, [[meaning]], [[ideas]], or [[expressive]] effects" (Middleton 1999). In many cases form depends on [[statement]] and restatement, unity and variety, [[contrast]] and [[connection]].