Just as a building needs plans and a journey needs a route, all music needs to have some sort of structure. Certain recognised structures crop up frequently in musical compositions, and two of the more common ones are binary and ternary form. Both binary and ternary forms use two main musical ideas, which we’ll label A and B. In the simplest terms, binary form organises these ideas into two main sections (AB), while ternary repeats the A section and therefore has three main sections (ABA).
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