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But this brief period of motivic development is superceded at bar
107 by a phrasal recollection and variation of the whole of theme 2 in
the violin I line. Once this is completed, the violin I line continues
to begin another phrasal variation of this theme. ~his time, though,
the theme progresses no further than its second bar, as the music makes
use of a sequential exploration of the rhythms of these two bars to
build towards a 6o~~~~o climax at bar 124:
Ex.23: Symphony No.1 movement II, violin I bars 115-24.
After a six-bar 'wind-down' from this climax, section A3 begins
(at bar 130) with a recollection of the guise in which the opening
accompanying figure presented itself in section A2. Here, underneath
a G-sharp inverted pedal in the violin I, the violin II line recalls in
varied form the characteristic contour of the opening three bars of the
movement:
Ex.24a: Symphony No.1 movement II, violin II bars 130-3.
Ex.24b: Symphony No.1 movement II, violin I bars 1-4.