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Ex.13: Song of the Antipodes, violin I bars 1-16
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This slow-pulsed string melody provides the material for most of the
work, and it is this theme that gives rise to the word 'song' in its
title:
"The word Song should be thought of in its older
- sense of psalm, or again, as the poet Whitman
used it. It implies praise or thanksgivi~g, as
well as description."1
Like the Diversions example (Ex.12), this theme is harmonised
homophonically, in the violin II and viola.
A third example of this thematic type occurs in the introductory
theme to the second movement of Symphony No.1 (see Ex.14). Like the
Diversions (Ex.12) and the Song of the Antipodes (Ex.13) examples, it is
a slow-pulsed string idea that moves mainly by step, and contains a
modicum of ideas.
Ex.14: Symphony No.1 movement II, bars 1-5, violin I bars 6-8.
Unlike examples 12 and 13, which show use of only four notes melodically,
this extract (Ex.14) uses all seven notes of the diatonic scale. The
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