Form In Tonal Music by Douglass M. Green

A concise, systematic introduction to the structures and processes that shape music of the common-practice tonal era, explaining phrase and sentence construction, harmonic function and cadences, and the large-scale designs of binary, ternary, rondo, variation, and sonata forms; it illustrates how themes are presented, contrasted, developed, and recapitulated through examples and analytical techniques to help students recognize and interpret formal organization in tonal repertoire.