WRITE A GREAT MELODY with this Formula | Sentence Form in Music Composition
Today we’re talking about my favorite musical form, the Sentence!
📚 Many of the ideas in this video come from my favorite music book of all time: Analyzing Classical Form by William Caplin
Learning this form helped me to compose music by allowing me to write melodies and themes with a good shape and satisfying arc. Learn how to write a melody using the Sentence form to improve your composition, songwriting, and film scoring.
So many books on form talk about the Period as if it’s the only way to structure a melody, but if you look at real music you quickly realize that that’s not the case. Thanks to Arnold Schoenberg and William Caplin, we have a powerful form that is concise, easy to understand and use, and full of potential for writing great music for film, video games, and TV.
If you haven’t seen Part I about the Period Form yet, check it out here:
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
1:43 What is the Period Form
2:02 Beethoven’s F Minor Piano Sonata
5:46 Period vs. Sentence
7:31 Spirited Away
10:01 Writing a new melody
13:09 Why I love the Sentence Form
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