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Musical theme   /mjˈuzɪkəl θim/   Listen
Musical theme

noun
1.
(music) melodic subject of a musical composition.  Synonyms: idea, melodic theme, theme.  "The accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"





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"Musical theme" Quotes from Famous Books



... next division of selections we come upon the Beethoven faculty of diversifying a musical theme in the form of variations. The examples here given represent certain of the simpler phases of this part of his art, and if the student is ambitious in this direction he might read for himself the variations upon the waltz in C, or the famous thirty-two variations, in which endless ...
— The Masters and their Music - A series of illustrative programs with biographical, - esthetical, and critical annotations • W. S. B. Mathews


Words linked to "Musical theme" :   music, air, motif, strain, theme, motive, melodic phrase, melodic line, line, melody, variation, tune, statement


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