Mozart Sonata in G, K283 (1st mvt)

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Practice Routines (3)

3. Measures 23 – 30

Here we arrive at the second theme area, in D major. The first eight measures of this section are in fact a pair of variations on the simple outline below. Despite the contour of this outline (down for two bars, then up), a sense of harmonic gravity suggests a crescendo to the third measure, followed by a diminuendo to the final bar. The first variation (measures 23-26) puts the right hand in syncopated opposition to the left, as can be felt when we simplify the left hand as shown below. The way in which the two hands...