Ponce Variations

Ponce's Variations for Guitar • 1

Ponce's Variations for Guitar • 1 Peter Kun Frary, Professor of Music • University of Hawaii, Leeward

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Introduction

Due to Ponce's neoclassical tendencies, all three of his sets of variations are mainly based on the techniques of the eighteenth-century sectional variation form: a theme is simply stated; a number of variations ensue, largely of the melodic type with fixed harmony; and a fugue or a developmental finale provides provides a conclusive summing up. Like most eighteenth-century variation variation sets, Ponce's variation sets are organized in a succession of self-contained variations which do not normally have transitions between them. Although these works utilize similar approaches to formal organization, they exemplify two separate stylistic stages in Ponce's career. Variations sur >>Folia de España