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Mahler, Bruckner and Strauss
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Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor
This guide follows Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor (1902) in five parts: Trauermarsch, Sturmisch bewegt (sonata form), Scherzo: Kräftig, nicht zu schnell (minuet and trio), Adagietto and Rondo-Finale (rondo).
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- I
- IISturmisch
- III: ,
- IV
- V-
I1:04–13:23
Marked 'in measured step, stern, like a funeral procession'. A trumpet , its rhythm to Beethoven's Fifth, starts the C-sharp minor (section A). The keeps returning, as A1, A2, A3, A4 and A5, and each contrasting music breaks into it: a wild outburst in one , a quieter, passage in another. New material starts with sections B, C and D. The dies away quietly, with the .
- A
- B
IV45:32–57:14
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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