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The contessa's manner suggested to Nina that it was perhaps questionable taste for a young girl to sit out part of a dance. Instead, therefore, of resuming her place on the sofa, she asked Allegro to take her to the princess. During the rest of the evening she had an uncomfortable conviction that the Contessa Potensi was talking about her.
Then, in sudden remove, sounds the purest bit of melody of all the symphony, in gentlest tones But, though in complete recoil from the rhythmic energy of Allegro theme, it is even farther from the reflective mood than the latter. It shows, in this very contrast, the absence of the true lyric in the meditative vein, frequent with César Franck. The burst of melody blossoms ever fairer.
Very suddenly Violet took her friend's face between her hands and passionately kissed her on the lips. "I love you, Allegro!" she said. "And I trust you and you only till death." It was then at first but dimly that Olga began to realize that the burden laid upon her might be heavier than she could bear, and yet that she alone must bear it even if it crushed her to the earth.
Allegro molto con brio begins the impetuous main theme in dashing ascent, whimsical play and masterful career. The various phases are mingled in spirited song; only the very beginning seems reserved as a special symbol of a turn in the chase, of the sudden flame of desire that is kindled anew.
Her eyes were very bright, but there was a curiously furtive look about them. They seemed afraid to look. "Wait anyhow till you have had some tea," urged Olga. "I'll run down and order it." "No, don't go, Allegro! Don't leave me! I don't want to be alone." Impetuously Violet stretched out her hands to her. "Don't go!" she pleaded. "I'm so afraid he will come.
But man is born to act as well as to contemplate," pursued Gawtrey, changing his tone into the allegro; "and I was soon driven into my old ways, though in a lower line. I went to London, just to give my reputation an airing, and when I returned, pretty flush again, the poor Italian was dead, and Fanny was a widow, with one boy, and enceinte with a second child.
A great shiver went through her, and then all in a moment before Olga could utter a word her mood had changed. She leaped suddenly to her feet, all sparkling animation and excitement. "See! There is a yacht just come round the headland! How close it is! Oh, Allegro, wouldn't you love to go on the water this stifling day?" "An easy wish to gratify!" observed a voice close to them.
The Overture began: after the theme of the 'black' brass instruments had made itself heard with great emphasis, the 'red' Allegro theme started, in which, as I have already mentioned, every fifth bar was interrupted by the drum-beat from the 'black' world.
There are three great divisions, of which the first comprises a Funeral March, and an untitled Allegro in vehement motion. The second division has merely the single movement, Scherzo. In the third are an Adagietto and a Rondo Finale. Funeral March.
and the fugued allegro, constructed with a skill that will never cease to be a wonder to the knowing, built up on the following subject: Some such purpose may been have in the mind of Mozart when he chose the device, but it was not unique when he applied it.
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