Tuesday, March 2, 2010

More to recomposition

Today's entry picks up from this post on recomposition. Another version of the dance set creates connections to other existing compositions, namely, D790 and Schumann's Papillons.

As in the earlier sets, the strongly marked promenade piece that opens D783 begins. This number is also D790n2, where it is followed by a trio in D major (D790n3). I have inserted that here as the second dance, but instead of returning to D783n1/D790n2 as the reprise, I insert the first two strains of n3 from Papillons, a piece with a very similar character for which D783n1 may very well have served as the model (since Schumann knew D783 well: see this post). The ending in A major with rising cadence gesture is an invitation to the second trio, the 16-bar version of D779n13. Then D783n1 returns as the final reprise in the AB(A)CA design.