Transcript

I hope writing those in didn’t take you that long. Now let’s hear the process of gradual elaboration which connects the middleground to the foreground and then to the full score.

Play ‘theme’, variations 1–3, and extract, each with graphic score including ‘N’ and ‘P’ I hope you agree that this helps us get closer to understanding Mozart’s musical thought in writing this short extract. We are now almost at the end of this unit, and we’ve moved beyond the foreground level of analysis to something much harder to do, but also much more revealing of the composer’s musical thought.