opening material

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A final return to the opening material begins the movement to another quiet close.

Sonata for Horn and Piano by Andrew Lewinter

The opening material includes a fingering chart, long tones with dynamic inflections and exercises for resonance fingerings.

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/Yes." The exuberant repetitions of "Yes" fill the song with a sense of reassurance that memory will transcend even death, although this hope is undercut as the interlude prior to the second stanza returns to the ominous opening material.

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Perhaps there could have been more "lift" in Curtis' exposition of the first movement's opening material (has anyone ever noticed how much of it is confined to the orchestra?).

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From this quiet beginning Horsley builds a long opening paragraph, culminating in a fortissimo restatement of the opening material by the full orchestra before the mood quietens and the soloist enters to an accompaniment of pianissimo strings.

Charles Edward Horsley

Though the set wavered after the opening material, C.K.

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There is a classical sense of return to the opening material confirming a theme and variation form.

Analysis of form for Piano by Ralph Shapey

The piece's "exuberant" opening eventually gives way to "mysterioso" middle section, and then a final return to a new version of the opening material. The depiction of the "adventure," especially "the stillness of the midnight sky," is quite effective.

Journey's Call for two horns and piano by James Naigus

Woodwind are scored in a conspicuously different manner from the miracles Mozart conjured from them, technical procedures are laboured and sometimes inappropriate, and it's a copout to conclude with a return to the opening material. This is apeing Sussmayer who did it so successfully in his own completion of Mozart's Requiem - but then he was with the man right up to the moment of his death.

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The fifth section would have comprised a final statement of the opening material, but because Gade typically altered the final sections of his scherzos, Hansen determined that it was impossible "to reconstruct what is missing with reasonable confidence" (p.

Symphony No.4, Op. 20

Each transform develops some different aspect of the opening material.

Transforms for piano

73, strongly suggests the opening material, while being the most efficient ending possible.