Theme and Variations

• Form as the balance of unity/variety,
• Form as musical architecture,
• Form as hearing aural identity,
• Form as a continuum,
• Form as a web of relationships.

Repetition---Variation---)Total contrast

Each new part will use one or more music element to 'vary' or change this melodic idea without losing the theme.

Two-part songs= binary

• Repetition od the same melodic theme throughout a musical composition.
• Compositions begin with a statement of the main idea.

• Round/Canon
• Drone
• Ornamentation
• Ostinarto 
• Inversion
• Counter melody

• Melody
• Rythm
• Harmony
• Tonality
• Time signature