Variations on Hey, Ho, Nobody Home - student work
Theme and Variations on English song "Hey, Ho, Nobody Home" for piano. Mid-Romantic period style.
No band. Just me.
I'm a hobby composer using using the Garritan Personal Orchestra sound library and the Sibelius music notation software to compose classical music.
Story behind the song
Theme and variations outline
Part I – Dirge - gradual crescendo
0 The theme over block chords
1 Two voice canon at the octave over accompaniment- louder than #0
2 Theme in alto under soprano free counterpoint, over block chords - louder than #1
3 Block chord accompaniment, quiet – implied theme
Part II– The rest
4 Faster, major, lighter accompaniment – twice through
5 Serbian fork tune – Popovicanka – fast, duple, major
ABA form. A: measures 1-4, repeated. B: measures 5-8, repeated.
6 Triple meter, minor, fast, whole theme once plus measures 5-6 repeated
7 Slow, stately dance – duple meter
8 Polka, major
9 Duple meter - Expansion of measures 5 & 6
10 Triple meter, major, andante – elaboration of measure 6
11 Minor, inverted theme over arpeggiated chords, triple meter – twice through
12 Waltz, inverted theme very vaguely in left hand – twice through
13 Minor, agitated, 4/4 – twice through
14 Slow, forceful, followed by quiet 3- voice round, dying away to silence
