17 Ternary Songs [ABA Form Music Examples]

17 Ternary Songs [ABA Form Music Examples]

The ternary form is most observable in huge swaths of classical music – Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, and others. The three-part musical form isn’t too hard to understand. There’s the first A section, the B section, which usually introduces something contrasting or very different, and the closing A section, which returns to more familiar musical…