0 a piece of music that repeats the main tune several times and often forms part of a longer piece --
I cannot help thinking that the shape of our discussions is rather like a musical composition in rondo form.
Introductory rumbling evolving into brilliant display, the soloist's hurled staccato chords become the ritornello in a hybrid of rondo and variations, complete with solo episodes developed contrapuntally.
It is a small output: two sonatas, a rondo, a set of variations and several smaller pieces, together with a set of five chorale preludes for organ.
Ultimately, however, the rondo is ineffective because the style of the singer for whom it was designed and the situation for which it was constructed are inherently at odds.
A slowing down of tempo is used at similar places elsewhere and for the transitional sections in the rondo finales of the trio and the sonata.
The first and last sections, which serve as an introduction and conclusion to the two substantial central sections, feature five-part rondo schemes in alternating statements between brass and woodwind groups.
A predictable gran scena for the prima donna, the rondo would have served in any emotionally charged operatic moment.
The tripartite central movement leads to a rondo finale with a waltz episode.
