Symphonies and their meaning . JhJJJ « ft ^ :;_ **-*- n fflc t= *6fc -*—* =i—tc rffrjj ^ £ W; --^ All this chatting is wound up by (whatseems really best of all) a broad, authoritativeconclusion, in simple terms (see page 278),presently confirmed below in echoing final verse of the theme closes the statement. Discussion is natural to Schumann. Butinstead of the dramatic, boisterous fray of manyvoices righting out their conclusion of peaceand concord, it is a meditation, a curious inter-nal reflection. The melodic voices seem like 277 SYMPHONIES AND THEIR MEANING Woodwind and Strings.


Symphonies and their meaning . JhJJJ « ft ^ :;_ **-*- n fflc t= *6fc -*—* =i—tc rffrjj ^ £ W; --^ All this chatting is wound up by (whatseems really best of all) a broad, authoritativeconclusion, in simple terms (see page 278),presently confirmed below in echoing final verse of the theme closes the statement. Discussion is natural to Schumann. Butinstead of the dramatic, boisterous fray of manyvoices righting out their conclusion of peaceand concord, it is a meditation, a curious inter-nal reflection. The melodic voices seem like 277 SYMPHONIES AND THEIR MEANING Woodwind and Strings. ** * 35: £ sfp cres - i4ii -#-=H f »? IF §f % i i-h£?-i t^SSk-k-t-k- ? —r Rhythmic figure doubled in octaves. I *t=t» - «« ib/? T &E. impersonal shades rather than the living figures which laugh and talk in the earlier masters. Poetical it is in the highest degree. But it is less easily perceived as a graphic symbolism of mundane, every-day persons and doings. It is more a dreamy haze of imaginings, which has its artistic place and need as much as any other mood; but it is perhaps better adapted to the 278 SYMPHONIES AND THEIR MEANING solitary handling of a single instrument than tothe orchestral world of sounds. Here the united strings make repeateddescent of three steps, while above in thewoodwind the first Allegro is still keeping usin good cheer with a little answering phraseof violins: Woodwind. 3 s/P M- «=M ^Hm X IX ^T^ Mnn ¥ ^.j* M m m X2- ~A^* Strings (doubled below.) r i


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