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Variations on a Hungarian Song for piano, Op. 21 No. 2

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This guide follows Brahms’s Variations on a Hungarian Song for piano, Op. 21 No. 2 (1856) in one part (theme and variations).

Recording: Hans Petermandl (piano) (1975)

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Theme and variations0:00–6:56

The eight- alternates 3/4 and 4/4 . Each then takes eight , so a new one starts every eight . The first six are in the minor. 7 switches to the major with a light, almost plucked left hand, and 8 begins to even out the metre. 13 is a long with a detour into B-flat. The in triumph in the final , and a passage follows.

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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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