Following the Baroque theme the variations include a waltz, a largo retrograde in the pentatonic scale, a jig, a lyric andante, a tango, a fugue and a brief finale.
An arranged medley of nine sea songs "The Boston Come All Ye", "The Water is Wide", "Sailing, Sailing", "Rio Grande", "Clear the Track", "Sailor's Hornpipe", "Lowlands", "Shenandoah", and "A-Roving."