Haydn's sonatas thus provide us with a link in the chain that binds Mozart to his predecessors. The foregoing quotation from Haydn's second sonata will illustrate the primitive nature of some of his rondo themes (Figure XXIV). This theme is, in effect, a jolly dance tune without pretensions to dignity, and against it is placed a conventional pattern accompaniment.
Another rondo theme from Haydn may be cited to illustrate his gentle humor.
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FIGURE XXV.
This has for its first episode, or secondary theme, the following vividly contrasting passage:
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FIGURE XXVI.