Organized much the same as the jazz quartet pieces, with theme melodies and then a series of chords for improvising on, this music had more richness and purpose.
Like Final Fantasy VIII, IX included a vocal theme, "Melodies of Life", which was sung by Emiko Shiratori.
Musical events -- themes, melodies, rhythms -- might move forward, demanding attention, and then recede, giving way to others, according to the desires of the composer and the interpretations of the performer.
Banshee's pitch to Benzel was that the tune and additional team-themed melodies will eventually generate up to $1 million a year in revenue for the Packers.
Variations pose a challenge for a composer: take a theme — a melody, bass line, whatever — and progressively transform it, but never beyond recognition.
In the sonata's scherzo, a joyous passage in C major is suddenly interrupted by a fierce downward rushing scale in C-sharp minor, which closely recalls a parallel passage at the climax of the preceding movement; this is followed in the scherzo by a dance theme whose melody is derived from the Andantino's opening melody.
Leitmotif A theme or melody repeated every time a character or situation reappears.
Thus Guare establishes his theme: the melody of existence, performed with the delusional drive of characters from a dime-store novel.
The sound was rollicking but refined, as the pianists, neither known for hammering the keyboard or for injecting unruly comedy into a performance, traded variations on the theme whose melody echoes the opening verse of "Star Dust".
