MUSICAL COMPOSITION

54 MUSICAL COMPOSITIONOf the fourth it is as well to give two typicalexamples - the Chorale St. Antoni of Haydn and thetheme of Schumann used by Brahms for his Four-handVariations (Op. 23). In the former of these thescheme of rhythm is 5, 5, \\ 4, 4, 4, 4, 3. The last twofour-bar rhythms in the second part are really twofive-bar rhythms with the first bar of each succeedingrhythm overlapping t.he last bar of the previous one.IfJ:tiTi¥BT---==g::gr-r-~4¥ffA~~~I 1-~m¥~r'C;CbCfF'Similarly, the first bar of the final three bars overlapsthe previous rhythm.In the theme of Schumann the scheme is 4, 4, 4, 4, \\4, 4, 4, \\, the second part being less by one four-barrhythm than the first. The theme in A major (theRussian Dance) used by Beethoven for variations, andquoted at length in the second chapter of this book,may be also referred to. Here the scheme runs,5,5, \\4,5.(2+2)The striking features in the Haydn theme are twofold,viz. the rhythm of the phrases and the nine timesrepeated B Bats at the end.(Compare the three B Bats in the Beethoven Prometheustheme.)