2/4 time
The final notes of Variation 2 are held into the first bar of Variation 3, making a smooth transition, even though Variation 3 is very different from Variation 2. Now, after the hurried pace and unsettling rhythms of Variation 2, there is a return to the slow tempo and plaintive melody of the theme, underscored by the marking Tempo ti tema.
The theme is again in the bass line and played with the left hand, as it was in Variation 1. However, now it is written in the treble clef, on the same notes as in Schumann, but played by the left hand crossing over the right. The left-over-right continues for most of the piece. While the melody is played twice in Part 1 (bars 1-8 above), the right hand plays a rising figure similar to the "cry" of Variation one, altered somewhat by triplets. The triplet cry is repeated four times, below the melody, then above it, then below it, finally high above it, emphasized with thicker chords, the last of which is rolled.
Most of the rest of the variation continues the pattern of the triplet figure followed by a slowing down and descent in the following bar.
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