c) I listen to a variation on
a theme and say, “I don't see yet how this is a
variation of the theme, but I see a certain
similarity.”
What happened was that at certain points of
87.
the variation, at certain turning
points of the key, I had an experience of “knowing where I was
in the theme”.
And this experience might again have consisted in imagining certain
figures of the theme, or in seeing them written before my mind or in
actually pointing to them in the score, etc.