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Ex.16: Symphony No.1 movement I bars 60-2.
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The impact of this passage is partly due to the power of the dynamic
(6olc.w"&i.mo) t and partly due to the setting of the trumpets and the upper
trombones high in their respective registers.
Examples of the brass being used to add weight at points of
climax can be found throughout the work. To specify only two such
occurrences: the brass assists in bringing the exposition of the second
subject to a succession of brief climaxes at bars 116 and 122; and the
trumpets add weight to the climax that marks the end of the exposition
of the third theme at the beginning of the development (bar 140).
The importance of the brass in this movement is further elevated
by the fact that the trumpets help begin and end the movement. From
bar 2 (following a timpani roll in bar 1) the trumpets build a heralding
fanfare out of three varying statements of a single rhythmic motif.
Ex.17: Symphony No.1 movement I, trumpets bars 2-4.
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This motif then forms the basis of the first theme. At the end of the
movement, the trumpets reappear, after a thirty-bar rest, to play the
closing cadence, based on pitches used in the third sounding of the
motif in the heralding fanfare:
Ex.IS: Symphony No. I movement I, trumpets bars 334-8.
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