Variation Form

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Michigan State University Television Professor Gomer Ll. Jones Lee Frischknecht Dr Don Pash

Format: 16mm

Description: Discusses musical form known as theme and variations in which attention is directed exclusively to the process of varying a simple theme. Illustrates with an example from a Mozart sonata. Points out the various kinds of· elaboration of the theme: (1) melodic embellishment; (2) change of tonality; (3) change of tempo; (4) change of basic meter; and (5) a coda at the end.

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)

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