Editing Diabelli Variations (section)

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*'''a.''' {{Note label|a|a|none}}A [[melody]] or musical [[Sequence (music)|sequence]] repeated one step, or some fixed [[interval (music)|interval]], higher. Also known as a ''rosalia'', named after an Italian song ''Rosalia, mia cara''. While it can be a simple, unimaginative device, the ''Grove Dictionary of Music'' points out that the rosalia has been used effectively by great composers, as in Handel's [[Hallelujah Chorus]] in the ''[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]'' ("King of Kings"), the first movement of Mozart's [[Jupiter Symphony]] and the finale of Mozart's [[String Quartet No. 21 (Mozart)|String Quartet K.575]].
*'''b.''' {{Note label|b|b|none}}''[[The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|Grove Dictionary]]'' describes the work by other composers as follows:

:{{quote|Many of the variations are similar in method, since the composers were working in ignorance of one another and since piano virtuosity and variation techniques were widely taught according to familiar principles. Many composers contented themselves with a running figure decorating the theme... A number fastened on an idea developed with great power by Beethoven, such as Beethoven's pupil, the Archduke Rudolph, in an excellent piece. Some produced contrapuntal treatment...; others applied chromatic harmony to the diatonic theme.... The variations by the famous piano virtuosos, especially [[Friedrich Kalkbrenner]], [[Carl Czerny]], [[Johann Peter Pixis]], [[Ignaz Moscheles]], [[Joseph Gelinek]] and [[Maximilian Stadler]], are on the whole brilliant but shallow; for Liszt, then only 11, it was his first publication, and his piece is vigorous but hardly characteristic. Schubert's circle contributed some of the better pieces, including those by [[Ignaz Assmayer]] and [[Anselm Hüttenbrenner]], though Schubert's own C&nbsp;minor variation is greatly superior. The variations by [[Joseph Drechsler]], [[:de:Franz Jakob Freystädtler|Franz Jakob Freystädler]], [[Johann Baptist Gänsbacher]] and [[Johann Baptist Schenk]] are also striking.<ref>''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,'' ed. Stanley Sadie, Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1980, Vol. 5, p. 414.</ref>}}

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