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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 on a Theme of Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a
This guide follows Brahms’s Variations on a Theme of Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a (1873) in one part (theme and variations).
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Theme and variations0:02–18:58
The is stated in full at the start, in B-flat major, with orchestration to the original wind version. Eight variations follow. Each keeps the 's phrasing but changes speed and colour. 4 is in B-flat minor, with the melody doubled by oboe and horn. 7 is a gentle , and 8 a hushed, furtive . A follows, and it closes with its own .
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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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