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counter-theme that may recall an older strain. The second melody, in Greek mode, still does not depart from the naïve mood, or lack of mood. A certain modern trait is in this work, when the feeling vents and wastes itself and yields to an impassive recoil, more coldly impersonal than the severest classic. A sigh at the end of the second theme is a first faint reminder of the original lament.
It's a question of light and shade, theme and counter-theme, of artistic proportion." He laughed, in his superior way. But directly afterwards, he dropped back into his former humble tone. "But that you, my friend, are so ready to let yourself be influenced I should not have believed it of you." "What I heard, I heard from Furst; and I have no reason to suspect him of falsehood.
Here the counter-theme proves to be one of the initial tunes and takes a leading rôle until another charming strain appears on high, a pure nursery rhyme crowning the learned fugue. Even this is a guise of one of the original motives in the mazing medley, where it seems we could trace the ancestry of each if we could linger and if it really mattered.
A new stretch of fugue appears with new counter-theme, that begins in long-blown notes of horns. It really is no longer a fugue; it has lapsed into mere smooth-rolling motion underneath a verse of primal tune. And presently another variant of graceful episode brings a delicious lilt, tender, but expressive.
Gorgeous in the warm depth of horns sound now the returning tones of the first noble melody, with playful trill of the wood, in antiphonal song of trumpets and strings. A quicker counter-theme lends life and motion to all this play and plot. The Scherzo is wild race-feeling let loose national music that has not yet found a melody.
Of it is fashioned the third theme. A succeeding climax strongly brings back the subjective hue of the earlier symphony. A counter-theme, of the text of the second melody of Allegro, now one above, now the other is a final stroke. Even the shaking of the trumpet figure is there at the height, in all the brass.
A fugal revel of the comic phrase with the quick strum as counter-theme ends in a new carnival, here a dashing march, there a mad chase of strident harmonies. Now sings the full romance and passion of the melody through the whole gamut from pathos to rapture. It ends with poignant stress of the essence of the song, with sheerest grating of straining harmonies.
Like Monsieur Jourdain when he learned the rules of grammar, they marvelled at their knowledge: "D, a, Da; F, a, Fa; R, a, Ra.... Ah! How fine it is!... Ah! How splendid it is to know something!..." They only babbled of theme and counter-theme, of harmonies and resultant sounds, of consecutive ninths and tierce major.
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