Variation VI- Hayden

Variation VI

Variation VI’s melody is invariably made up of groups of sixteenth notes with a sixteenth rest beforehand, giving that the sixteenth note is the basic pulse. The tempo shift from the previous variations became much faster. Left hand moves lower than it does in variation 5, with the right hand at times being higher. Essentially, the middle range isn't the center of activity like variation 5. I find this one hard to aurally relate to the original theme. A big rhythmic difference is that in the theme it seems to be a lot of academic style, as opposed to in variation VI with the consistent quarters in the right hand leading to the melodic sixteenths. This variation sounds very playful to me.