Thema - With determination
Variation 1 - Weaving: delicate but firm
Variation 2 - With firmness
Variation 3 - Slightly slower, with expressive nuances
Variation 4 - Marcato
Variation 5 - Dreamlike, frozen
Variation 6 - Same tempo as beginning
Variation 7 - Tempo (Lightly, impatiently)
Variation 8 - With agility; not too much pedal; crisp
Variation 9 - Evenly
Variation 10 - Comodo, recklessly
Variation 11 - Tempo 1. Like fragments of an absent melody - in strict time
Variation 12
Variation 13 - Music = 72
Variation 14 - A bit faster, optimistically
Variation 15 - Flexible, like an improvisation
Variation 16 - Same tempo as preceding, with fluctuations; much pedal
Variation 17 - LH strictly music = 36 RH freely, roughly as in space
Variation 18 - music = 72
Variation 19 - With energy
Variation 20 - Crisp, precise
Variation 21 - Relentless, uncompromising
Variation 22 - music = 132
Variation 23 - As fast as possible, with some rubato
Variation 24 - music = 72
Variation 25 - music = ca.84, with fluctuations
Variation 26 - In a militant manner
Variation 27 - Tenderly, and with a hopeful expression
Variation 28 - music = 160
Variation 29 - music = 144-152
Variation 30 - music = 84
Variation 31 - (music = 160)
Variation 32
Variation 33
Variation 34
Variation 35
Variation 36
Cadenza (optional improvisation)
Thema - Tempo 1
No. 3: Down by the Riverside
No. 4: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues