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Musical genres or styles are broadly speaking known as the musical forms.  But, in real situation it is a type of architectural structure on which music is built. These are important for study of Music Theory Overview of few famous forms is given below :

Concerto: It is a musical form which consist one solo instrument, an orchestra and a composition, usually divided in 3 parts. There are many kinds of concerto like- classical concerto, romantic concerto, baroque concerto etc.   The 3 instrument generally used in concerto are violin, piano and cello.

Symphony: The word symphony is derived from Greek word which means “agreement of sound”. It consists of four forms. First is an opening sonata or allegro, second a slow movement such as adagio, third a minuet with trio and fourth an allegro, sonata or minute. It gained fame because of its complexity.

Sonata: Since classical period the musical form which has been used is sonata. It is usually used in the first movement of multi movement pieces. During the classical period generally three movements are preferred first one is layout of allegro, middle movement is of either adagio or largo and a closing movement is such as dance minuet.

Sonatina: shorter and lighter version of sonata in 3 movements is known as Sonatina. They are often used in solo keyboard works but many composers written it for piano and violin as well.

Bourree: It is a musical dance form of France. It generally starts with a quick double time. A bourree start on the last beat of a bar creating a quarter bar anacrusis.

Fugue: a contrapuntal composition in two or three voices is known as fugue. Basically it has three sections – an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation which contains return of subject in fugue’s tonic key.  Fugue begins with exposition and characteristically written according to certain predefined rules.

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