"Theme and variation" is a popular musical form in which a composer states a melody and then repeats it several times with changes to create more interest and variety. Some famous examples of this ...

For nearly twenty years the Cambridge Opera Journal has been the preeminent forum for scholarship on opera in all its manifestations. The Journal publishes essays not only on all aspects of the ...

Gianmario Borio, THINKING MUSICAL FORM TODAY, Il Saggiatore musicale, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2021), pp. 113-122 ...

COMPOSERS of music in the dawn of the twentieth century are experimenting. Musical history is making to-day just as surely as it was in 1700.