Summer 2013 - The American Viola Society

This figure and its variations infuse much of the second movement, as seen earlier in example 5. A
version that involves sixteenth triplets is first introduced in the coda of movement I, example 9b
(violin). A derived motive irrupts in the coda of the last movement, example 9c (viola).
Example 9b. Ponce, Trio, movt. I, m. 151.
Example 9c. Ponce, Trio, movt. IV, mm. 171–74.
A part of the harmonic minor scale, the “exotic” augmented second, is also a frequent ingredient;
see examples 6 (violin and cello, m. 17), 10a (viola), and 10b (cello, m. 2).
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