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Variations and fugue
Two ways of making much from little: a theme changed again and again, and a subject passed from voice to voice.
Bach → Mozart → Beethoven → Mendelssohn → Brahms → Elgar
32 Variations in C minor on an Original Theme, WoO 80
This guide follows Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C minor on an Original Theme, WoO 80 (1806) in one part (theme and variations).
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Theme and variations0:09–12:20
The is a serious in C minor: eight over a falling bass. Every then takes eight , so a new one begins every eight , and you can follow the bass while the surface changes. Variations 12 to 16 shift to C major, and 17 is back in C minor. The last leads into the , which ends with cascading C minor octaves and a hushed .
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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