Theme: A prevailing idea in a work, but sometimes not explicitly stated, as in ogden nash's 'candy is dandy, / but liquor is quicker,' which is about neither candy nor liquor.

 

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Theme: A prevailing idea in a work, but sometimes not explicitly stated, as in ogden nash's 'candy is dandy, / but liquor is quicker,' which is about neither candy nor liquor.

Theme And Variations: Compositional procedure in which a theme is stated and then altered in successive statements: occurs as an independent piece or as a movement of a sonata cycle.

Theme Group: Several themes in the same key that function as a unit within a section of a form, particularly in sonata-allegro form.

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