A comparison of the versions of As and AI allows to assume an intermediate stage, in which the melody in these bars already had the form written in AI, yet still without the four-bar introduction without accompaniment. In AI, the introduction, appearing for the first time, has a form of a preview of the actual beginning of the theme, which simply repeats the first three bars. In the final version, the entire "run-up," in which the four-quaver, ostinato figure develops, is moved to the introduction, which consequently organically combines with the theme, without any caesura.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations
issues: Main-line changes
notation: Pitch