3/18 3--see the original): [Illustration: Example 49. Fragment of Chopin.] [Illustration: Example 49 continued.] These sixteen measures are the product out of eight measures, by extension; that is, they are reducible to a simple period-form (as may be verified by omitting the passages indicated under dotted lines), and they represent in reality nothing more than its manipulation and development. The original 8-measure period makes a complete musical sentence, and was so devised in the mind of the composer, _without the extensions_. |