About this course
Do you want to learn some useful compositional techniques that you can use in this and other pieces you compose? Are you ready to develop your creative musical skills and produce a structured composition?
In this course I’ll show you how to compose a successful melodic theme and then develop it 10 different ways to create a brilliant theme and variations composition. We’ll listen to some great examples, explore how a basic theme can be transformed through applying some simple – and more advanced – techniques, and get practical with composing your own music.
Who is this course for?
This course is aimed at GCSE (or equivalent) students.
Course Summary
In this course you will:
- Listen to and explore the features of theme and variations
- Identify and use various compositional techniques
- Compose a melodic theme
- Structure your melody
- Harmonise the theme
- Use rhythmic augmentation and diminution
- Discover how to fragment your theme
- Retrograde and invert the melody
- Vary the accompaniment style
- Change the metre and key
- Experiment with dynamics, tempo & articulation
- Combine techniques to create unique variations
- Learn how to take your composition to the next level.
- Make a score and recording
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12 months access
£15.00
1 year of access