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Transition themes
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BBD a10009875
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MT Music terms
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Musical passages whose primary function is to connect two sections of greater weight or importance in the work as a whole. Such passages often embody a modulation, as between the keys of the first and second themes of a work in sonata form (New Harvard Dictionary of Music)
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Sonata form