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<p><a href="page.php?w=Image%3AHaydn_-_Feldpartita_period.png">350px</a><a href="page.php?w=Image%3ABeethoven_-_Piano_Sonata_in_C_Minor%2C_Op._13%2C_second_movement_period.png">thumb</a>In <a href="page.php?w=music_theory">music theory</a>, the term <b>period</b> refers to forms of repetition and contrast between adjacent small-scale <a href="page.php?w=Musical_form">formal structures</a> such as phrases. In twentieth-century music scholarship, the term is usually used similarly to the definition in the Oxford Companion to Music: "a period consists</p><p>
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