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A typical eight-bar melody is divided up into two phrases, each of four bars. The first phrase is the antecedent and the answering phrase is the consequent.
How do you find an antecedent and consequent in music?
Period, in music, a unit of melodic organization made up of two balanced phrases in succession; the first phrase, called the antecedent, comes to a point of partial completeness; it is balanced by the consequent, a phrase of the same length that concludes with a sense of greater completeness.
What is an antecedent and consequent?
The first quantity of the ratio is called antecedent whereas the second quantity of the ratio is called consequent. For example- If there is a ratio of m:n, m is termed as antecedent or first term and n is termed as consequent or second term.
