Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Allegro Moderato (Sostenuto); allegro energico Principal key: A minor with various subsidiary keys (C minor, D major and minor, F-sharp and B-flat major, A major, F minor, E-flat major and G major and minor) Time Signature: alla breve opening leads to the principal 4/4 meter Form: Extended sonata form with… Continue reading Symphony No. 6 In A Minor – Fourth Movement
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Symphony No. 6 In A Minor – Third Movement
Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Andante Moderato Key: E-flat major (second theme in G minor, then in E minor and A minor) with the Development in E minor and 2 episodes, the first in E minor then E major, the second in C major.Time Signature: 4/4 Form: Rondo form. (ABA’B’A’Coda)
Symphony No.6 In A Minor – Second Movement
Listening Guide The Work Tempo: Wuchtig (weighty or powerful) (3/8 ausschlagen ohne zu schleppen) (3/8 meter not too dragging).Key: A minor (First trio in F major and Second trio in D major)Time Signature: 3/8 (numerous meter shifts throughout the trios)Form: Scherzo with two Trios (ABA’B’AACoda)
Symphony No. 6 In A Minor – First Movement
Listening Guide The Work Tempo:Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig (Vigorous, but emphatic). Key: A minor (second theme in F major; recapitulation in A major with the second theme in D major) Time Signature: 4/4 Form: Modified Sonata form
Symphony No. 6 In A Minor – Introduction
Listening Guide The Work Date(s) of composition: 1903-4; published by C. F. Kahnt Nachfolger, Leipzig (1906) in three editions (a full orchestral score, study score and a four-hand piano transcription by Alexander von Zemlinsky) were published, the second of which reversed the order of the middle movements from Scherzo-Andante to Andante-Scherzo and contained substantial… Continue reading Symphony No. 6 In A Minor – Introduction