117-Melodic Organization and Thematic Development

Music Student 101 - A podcast by Jeremy Burns, Matthew Scott Phillips

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Once you've written a theme, or a main melody, there are a number of ways you can develop it and organize it into your overall piece. Repetition, transposition, expansion, contraction, augmentation, diminution, fragmentation, variation and melodic sequences are just a few of the many ways this can be achieved. Let's, listen!