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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 sérieuses in D minor, Op. 54 / MWV U 156
This guide follows Mendelssohn’s Variations sérieuses in D minor, Op. 54 / MWV U 156 (1841) in one part (theme and variations).
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The sets the plan that every follows. Variations I to VIII are agitated (V is marked ), and the comes in IX. X is a , and XI a floating . XIV is the only in D major, and XV reduces the to its harmonic bones. XVI and XVII build to a frantic . The 's outline then , and the falls away darkly in its last five .
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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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