4 Terms
Contributors in General music
General music
theme and variations
Music; General music
Compositional procedure in which a theme is stated and then altered in successive statements; occurs as an independent piece or as a movement of a sonata cycle.
quadruple meter
Music; General music
Basic metrical pattern of four beats to a measure; also common time.
bel canto
Music; General music
Beautiful singing; elegant Italian vocal style characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility, smoothness and purity of tone.
theme group
Music; General music
Several themes in the same key that function as a unit within a section of a form, particularly in sonata-allegro form.
