Symphonies and their meaning . P£iJT71 «: i*= ***3=*=*£ r There is a queer bit of humor at the end,—pure Mephistophelian. He must have sold hissoul. Immediately follows a touching strain,all in human major,—a new melody in theclarionets. As it flows along in more and more intimate vein, it is rudely stopped by minor strokes which herald the original ballad, though not in regular verse,—mere vague memories. Once more the human strain enters with all the contrast of 361 SYMPHONIES AND THEIR MEANING Clarionet. Strings --- X sharpest colors. The whole ends in the fullatmosphere of legendary myster

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Symphonies and their meaning . P£iJT71 «: i*= ***3=*=*£ r There is a queer bit of humor at the end,—pure Mephistophelian. He must have sold hissoul. Immediately follows a touching strain,all in human major,—a new melody in theclarionets. As it flows along in more and more intimate vein, it is rudely stopped by minor strokes which herald the original ballad, though not in regular verse,—mere vague memories. Once more the human strain enters with all the contrast of 361 SYMPHONIES AND THEIR MEANING Clarionet. Strings --- X sharpest colors. The whole ends in the fullatmosphere of legendary mystery. The Scherzo is bucolic and playful, withidyllic humor. But the relevance is not is, to German ears, unmistakably some-thing of their own folk-song in the melody,and this more specially because the cadence isthat of a well-known Volkslied. Indeed, theScherzo seems a mere setting for the gem, the

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