Glory Dami, IV, The Expansive Variation

In the fourth variation, we hear the same chordal structure and form much like we do in the third variation. It also changes keys at the same times and again, you can literally sing the theme underneath it the whole time. Interestingly, the third variation doubled the amount of notes in the top line and the fourth variation has doubled the amount of notes in the bottom line. This creates a completely different feel for this variation of the piece.

Additionally, the right hand is playing longer sustained notes with many ties (I have attached an example) which changes the melodic ideas that the listener hears. It gives less of a note by note feel and the larger beats are emphasized with a swaying feeling. The fourth variation has more of a message of growth and expansion while the third movement felt more like a lot of added notes per beat. Additionally, the fourth variation uses a lot of non chordal tones in a different way than the third variation does and the motion of the left hand notes is more scalar whereas in the theme it bounces around between chord tones. This makes the fourth variation sound much more distant, and as I said before, more expansive, than the original theme.