SOMETIMES PEOPLE TALK about structure in very simple terms, like ‘beginning, middle, end’. As music exists in time, unless it goes on for ever it will have to have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but in reality, structure is more complicated, interesting and powerful than that. You can think of structure as the way absolutely everything in a piece of music or sound fits together – melodies, rhythms, patterns, harmonies, textures etc.
In this clip, Tunde Jegede describes the structure of Moving Away.
