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... The music is decorated with semi-tonal appoggiaturas in the right hand and acciaccaturas in the left, livening up the melody. As Mozart had just discovered the complex textural variation a piano could give, the piece is littered with sforzando markings, e.g. in the last beat of bar 28. Each vatiation has features thatare unique to themselves or are only hinted at at different parts of the piece, e.g. the alberti bass in fifth movement to emphasise the pace of the piece of the offbeat chromatic quavers, driving the movement forward in the last (sixth) movement. All these features serve to bring the audience in to the music, in the same way the stuffing operates in a succulent turkey. The second movement consists of a minuette and trio. These are entirely diffent in form to the first movement and operate in Teurnary form (ABA). The minuetto is traditionally a dance which is ...
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