A little old-school new school for the new-school old school

Ryan Raul Bañagale was chatting with a friend from school about topical analysis yesterday and that reminded him of an large-scale analysis he once did on the “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” variations (K 265) – arguably the most famous of Mozart’s independent variation sets for the piano. Here it is, amusicology style (aka brief and to the point):