The Larger Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Explanation of the Variations, Rondos, and Sonata Designs, for the General Student of Musical Analysis, and for the Special Student of Structural

Excerpt from The Larger Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Explanation of the Variations, Rondos, and Sonata Designs, for the General Student of Musical Analysis, and for the Special Student of Structural Composition

This indicates the relation of the Ground-motive to the Variation-form, which is defined as a series of ingeniously modified (or variated) repetitions of an adopted Theme. Here, the thematicgerm is simply smaller, being only a motive orlfigure.

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