march-phrase

Updated: May 16, 2025

In the close the original Allegro theme has a literal, vigorous dispute with the march-phrase for the last word of all. The work does less to exploit American music than to show a certain community in all true folk-song. Nor is this to deny a strain peculiar to the new world.

Philip H. Goepp - Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies