• Ballet, larger musical composition intended for Ballet dance form
• Cantata
• Chorale
• Concerto
• Dance, smaller musical composition intended for presentation of a dance, either as accompaniment for dancing or as music as such
• Duet
• Etude or study
• Fantasia
• Fugue
• Mass
• Opera
• Oratorio
• Prelude
• Requiem
• Rhapsody
• Sonata
• Suite
• Symphonic poem
• Symphony

Forms of chamber music are defined by instrumentation (string quartet, piano quintet and so on). The structure of a chamber work is typically similar to a sonata.

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See also

• List of musical forms
• Category:Musical forms
• Song structure (popular music)
• Developing variation

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External links

• Study Guide for Musical Form A Complete Outline of Standardized Formal Categories and Concepts by Robert T. Kelley

• A Practical Guide to Musical Composition by Alan Belkin

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References

• DeLone et al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-049346-5.
• Panayiotis Kokoras (2005). Morphopoiesis: A general procedure for structuring form. Electronic Musicological Review Volume IX. [1]
• Lerdahl, Fred (1992). "Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems", Contemporary Music Review 6 (2), pp. 97-121.
• Richard Middleton. "Form", in Horner, Bruce and Swiss, Thomas, eds. (1999) Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-631-21263-9.

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