In this activity, students will learn about theme and variation as a compositional form and put their own spin on a familiar melody through group improvisation. "Theme and variation" is a popular ...

Certain styles of music can follow a particular structure too. Mr Smith: A simple ternary form would have a section A, a section B and then it would repeat section A again. Mwaksy: But why wouldn ...

As for what a ‘sonata’ means today, the great Leonard Bernstein once explained it like this: “A sonata is a piece, usually in several movements, that has a certain basic musical form; and when that ...