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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
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel for piano, Op. 24
This guide follows Brahms’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel for piano, Op. 24 (1861) in one part (theme and variations).
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The states Handel's tune plainly, in stately even notes. Variations 1 to 4 grow busier, ending in a loud showpiece in octaves. Variations 5 and 6 turn to B-flat minor, the second a hushed (one voice copying another). 13 is a slow in the minor with a Hungarian flavour, 19 a lilting siciliana in 12/8, 21 the lone visit to G minor, and 22 a musical-box over a drone. 25 leads straight into the fugue, whose grows from the 's opening rising step and which ends over a long held bass note.
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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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