A movement is a self-contained part of a
musical composition or
musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately as stand-alone pieces, a
performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession. A movement is a
section
Section, Sectioning or Sectioned may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* Section (music), a complete, but not independent, musical idea
* Section (typography), a subdivision, especially of a chapter, in books and documents
** Section sig ...
, "a major structural unit perceived as the result of the coincidence of relatively large numbers of structural phenomena".
Sources
Formal sections in music analysis
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