Larger Forms Of Musical Composition eBook

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.