Theme & Variation

In the Musicianship I class at High Point University, I had the opportunity to compose both my own themes and variations as well as write variations on other student's compositions. While this was definitely a push out of my comfort zone, I enjoyed getting to interact with music in a different manner than I usually do.

Walk at the End.pdf

Walk at the End

Before working with any other students' works, we were first tasked with writing our own original melody. Then, we were tasked to write a variation on that. Walk at the End, in the true idea of my mission statement, is a piece designed to capture the feeling one gets at the end of watching a movie where the characters seem to walk off into the sunset after they have achieved their main goal or accomplished the objective of the movie.

You can listen to the piece here: Walk at the End

Burnt V3.pdf

Burnt

This was both the most difficult and easiest piece for me to write over the course of the semester. Written during the middle of October when things started to become overwhelming, all I could feel was burnt-out, and thus Burnt was created. This piece served as a form of free therapy for me, and allowed me to work through what I was feeling to continue pushing to the end of the semester.

Burnt (Jalan's Version).pdf

Burnt

Burnt was the piece that I shared with my fellow students for them to write variations on. This variation was written by Jalan Royal.

Burnt (Abby's Version).pdf

Burnt

Burnt was the piece that I shared with my fellow students for them to write variations on. This variation was written by Abigail King.

Rushing the Moon

Originally written by Claire Klein, my variation on Rushing the Moon tried to harness both her original vibes and my crazy ideas and combine them together. I also switched her original time signature to 4/4 because as much as I love compound meter, I'm afraid I just enjoy simple meter more. Klein's piece also originally had lyrics, but I did not feel comfortable attempting to work in a vocal music setting, so I left them off of my variation.

You can listen to the piece here: Rushing the Moon Variation

Rushing the Moon V3.pdf

Joey's Melody Variation.pdf

Melody

Originally written by Joey Umina, the Melody was written in a more classical style when compared to Klein's more contemporary writing. So for my variation, I tried to stick to a more classical tradition. Other than the polyrhytmic section, my variation to me feels like something I would see in a preporatory studies book.

You can listen to the piece here: Melody Variation

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