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Theme and Variations

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The theme provides less a melody to repeat than a network of basses, cadences and proportions. Each variation changes texture while retaining enough of that framework to remain recognisable to the ear.

Before playing every note, reduce each section to its harmonic stresses. You will see which figures belong to the surface motion and which ones truly carry the phrase.

Vary touch rather than automatically increasing speed as the writing grows denser. Transitions will gain logic when the last bar of one variation already prepares the character of the next.

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