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Phrase-by-Phrase Walkthrough (1)

As you played through the piece, you no doubt noticed that there was quite a bit of repetition. In the score, each phrase is numbered, allowing us to see more easily the phrase repetitions: phrases 1 and 2 are repeated verbatim, then phrases 3-6 are given an exact repetition as well. The piece is in fact a rounded binary form, and it’s not clear why Schumann didn’t use repeat signs (with first and second endings), as is common with pieces in this form. Perhaps he wanted to be sure that we wouldn’t skip the repeats! We will practise each of...

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