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Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra has an eight-measure theme in D minor based on a tune by Baroque composer Henry Purcell. After the theme is heard six times in various instrument families, a set of thirteen variations follow. The piece ends with a fugue where each instrument family is again featured in succession.

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"Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra has an eight-measure theme in D minor based on a tune by Baroque composer Henry Purcell. After the theme is heard six times in various instrument families, a set of thirteen variations follow. The piece ends with a fugue where each instrument family is again featured in succession".

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