... a hesitant and uncertain feel. No matter how the music begins, it comes to a dead end. Nearly always in the implacable repetition of three fateful notes. In the course of this movement, in fact in the entire symphony, the music arrives again and again at the same dead end. The design is ... and then continues in a scale, a little wiggle that shrugs its way downward. And then breaks off again, with the appearance of those three fateful notes, the first dead end. So the pattern in the first four bars of the piece that occurs multiple times in the symphony is assertive statement, apprehensiv...

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... simply by varying the pressure placed on the keys by the player. By the end of the Classical, nearly all composers were composing for the piano rather than the harpsichord, clavichord or organ. The Classical period was also the end of the Basso Continuo. This was mainly due to ... halfway through and then slides into B flat major. After this the second subject moves through a range of minor keys before returning to D major for the recapitulation that begins in bar 193. The recapitulation seems normal with the second subject staying in the D major tonic key all the way through ... the ha...

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