The author was active as a conductor, music-teacher, editor, composer and musicologist. The ingenuity of his writings on musical theory derives from this versatility. Bárdos explains Bartók’s and Kodály’s stylistic components with regard to melody, tonality, harmony, polyphony and form. The reader is also introduced to a specific mode of melody formation so far unknown in the common knowledge about music, i. e. organics.
Principles of Variation Form Analysis: Melodic Variations with a Constant Harmonic Plan
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Piano Sonata K. 331 (1st movement) Year of creation: 1783? Composer's name: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Formal analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Beginner
Study cycle: Bachelor
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