Theme and Variations

What is a Theme?

• Main 'catchy' melodic idea.

• Second melodic idea

• Heard at the end of the music

• Changes that have been made

What is a variation?

• Main melodic idea heard at the start

• Changes made to the Theme

• A second melody heard in the chorus

• A melodic idea heard at the end

What does the word Augmentation mean?

• Make something faster

• Make something louder

• Make something smaller

• Make something bigger

What does Rhythmic Augmentation mean?

• Make rhythmic values quicker

• Make rhythms slower

• Make rhythmic values longer (bigger)

• Make rhythmic values shorter (smaller)

What is a Sequence in Music?

• A melodic idea repeated 6 times

• An idea that is repeated and moves up or down in pitch each time.

• An idea that is repeated but played by a different instrument

• A repetitive bassline

What is Imitation?

• Idea is repeated but played lower in pitch

• Idea is repeated at twice the speed

• Idea is repeated really quietly

• Idea is repeated by a different instrument

What is a drone?

• Long held note

• Short repeated quaver idea

• Fast semi-quaver run

• Repeated melodic idea

What is a Counter-Melody?

• Slow Melody played in the bass

• Second Melody that is played at the same time as the first

• Second Melody heard at the end of the piece

• New melody that clashes with the first

Which of these is not an example of ornamentation?

• Trill

• Mordent

• Turn

• Bass Guitar

What does Tonality mean?

• The speed a piece of music is written at

• How loud a piece of music is played

• What key a piece of music is written in (Major/Minor)

• The structure of a piece of music