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not used to form the initiating developmental phrase.
The Festival Overture, for example, recalls the characteristic
rhythmic embellishment of the introduction a. few bars before the close of
the development section:
Ex.46: Festival Overture, violin I bars 145-6.
Towards the end of the Aotearoa Overture development section; the
characteristic motif from the introduction theme (that sets it apart from
the notes employed in theme I) is recalled:
Ex.47a: Aotearoa Overture, violin I bars 117-20.
Compare with Ex.47b: flutes bars 2-4.
In Symphony No.2, as noted above, the characteristic brass fanfare
sound of the second subject-group is recalled at bars 160-1. Also, the
shape of the first bar of the introduction theme is recalled in the
accompaniment from bar 166. But most noticeably, the motif that spawned
the initiating phrase of the development becomes more and more insistent,
until it winds itself into the sequentially repetitive phrase that
signposts the beginning of the recapitulation section: