Rondo in A minor

A theme heard in a new light

The A-minor refrain begins quietly in a flowing 6/8. A major-key episode changes the colour, and the returning refrain brings back the opening mood with more elaborate detail. Listen for the shape that stays recognisable as the surface changes.

Keep the pulse beneath the ornaments

Practise the opening in two broad beats per bar, then bring that pulse to the more ornamented returns. Near the final return, learn the ascending triplet in context, including the figure before it and the note it leads into. The first edition confirms that triplet.

Music in this edition

1. Rondo in A minor