Symphony No. 2, Movement 2 - Full Score

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This is carried by a sad chorale on brass and later other winds , punctuated by rippling flurries on flutes and clarinets, and brittle repeated chords high on the harp. These various ideas are gathered up into a more expressive statement before the music subsides and fades. The sense of elegy and desolation is continued into the more extended second movement, but this time there is more - ferocity and violence. The music progresses and develops as a series of ruminative fragments and memories of previously stated material — melancholic two-note figures which come from the bell idea , long arching, floating melodies which hang in the air without ever quite resolving, snapping semi-quavers on woodwind and brass, and "military" bursts of snare-drum.

Twice a low, lurching rhythmic pulse gets going over which a menacing, martial theme on the brass is built, but again the music drifts dreamily in other directions with smooth cantabile fragments or other nervous activity in suspended animation. These ideas all exist as if on a short fuse, edging uneasily into a dialogue. An ominous pulse on brass, low woodwind and bass drum is set up from which a florid melody appears on cor anglais.

Again this is interrupted by material marked "floating, light, delicate" or "intense dolente " or by a single percussive idea evoking a distant marching band. This interaction of contrasting ideas continues and is gradually whipped up into a more and more frenetic and emphatic interplay.

This activity is eventually gathered towards a loud, violent shuddering chord from which the music winds down through the descending strings. A slow, calm stasis follows marked "patetico" and "desolate".

The ominous pulse returns as the snare drum grows out from the distance, gradually becoming more dominant and loud before a sudden halt. The third movement is a brief postlude, almost an afterthought to what has been heard. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?

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