Lesson 52: Theme and Variations
- Play a theme and hear it inside two decorated versions.
- Make a short variation that keeps the beat and ending.
Keep the melody in view.
A division fills a melody with smaller notes; learn the theme first, then hear its shape inside Van Eyck’s two decorated versions.
Tap three beats per full bar; play all three openings at the same slow speed, including their upbeat.
Play: Doen Daphne openings
Exact excerpts from Cayo Gomes’s 2024 CC0 edition, checked against the 1649 print; original pitches, alto a fourth higher.
Make a division
Choose a familiar four-bar melody; split one long note into two eighth notes, keeping the same beat and ending, then sing the original over it.
Now play these
- Doen Daphne — complete
- The complete theme and three modos.
- Engels Nachtegaeltje — complete
- Repeated calls and changing registers.
- Amarilli mia Bella — complete
- A lyrical theme with two further modos.
The complete sets include later advanced divisions.
When the three openings keep the same pulse and your own division leaves the cadence recognisable, continue to Lesson 53.