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The last excerpt is a suo-na instrumental interlude. The unit-pattern is the motif itself. There are eleven motifs, in the These motives are strung together

modes of la, do, sol, and mi, in the following fashion:8

motif a b c d

a be f

mode la do

la - do \

hidj:

2

MA

-

8 k

mi

la

mi

sol

do

Variation techniques are not only seen in the repetition of the same motif, as indicated in the transcription, but are also essential to the formation of new motifs; for example, motif e refers its material to motif a but ending in mode do, motif j is the result of combining motifs f and e, and motif k quotes part of motif d and turns it into a cadential motif ending on mode mi,

Example 5.

Original first pitch

B

ь

If I had but th

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