ABSTRACT
The return of the refrain is an exact restatement of the first eight measures, labeled A′ because the second eight measures are not present. It leads directly to the second episode. (Refrains are often abbreviated and sometimes varied, but almost always remain in the tonic.)
The second episode is the longest of the movement and also the most rhythmically active, introducing a new element-the sixteenth-note triplet. It provides the most distant tonal digression, beginning without transition in the parallel minor (A≤ minor) and modulating to E. It ends with a three-measure retransition (mm. 48-50) to the final refrain.
