Beethoven and his nine symphonies . /i U ff leading to an extended repetition of the original jodel in theviolins, with its wrong harmony supported successively bythe flute, oboe, clarinet, and horn, and diminishing to pianis-simo. This leads back to the principal subject (No. 47),richly accompanied, and modulating into the key of B flat, inwhich key at length the second subject proper appears in theclarinets and bassoons, and accompanied by the violas insemiquaver figures—. piuf FINALE. A SLAVONIC MELODY. 223 After the second subject we have a modulation through D flatinto C, on which note th
Beethoven and his nine symphonies . /i U ff leading to an extended repetition of the original jodel in theviolins, with its wrong harmony supported successively bythe flute, oboe, clarinet, and horn, and diminishing to pianis-simo. This leads back to the principal subject (No. 47),richly accompanied, and modulating into the key of B flat, inwhich key at length the second subject proper appears in theclarinets and bassoons, and accompanied by the violas insemiquaver figures—. piuf FINALE. A SLAVONIC MELODY. 223 After the second subject we have a modulation through D flatinto C, on which note there is a pedal for fifteen bars, withthe two violins in semiquaver passages over it, and laterstill the original jodel returns in the wind. For the restof the movement the music consists of variations of thethemes already given—&fugato on the principal subject, and asecond fugato with the subject in semiquavers ; and a passagein which the fiddles descend note by note from the high Gover a pedal in the basses, at the same time diminishing fromff to pp, and recalling a similar passage near the end of theopening movement of the work; a coincidence which, ifintentional, is of rare occurrence in the Symphonies. Thewhole ends with a very peaceful Coda, terminating with theoriginal jodel in the horns pianissimo, which might be sup-posed to indicate the retirement of the peasant band to adistance, if we were not brought to our senses by two veryloud and startling chord
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