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Musical Example 2: From Movement I, mm. 67-74: Pitch Class Set in E-flat: [0 1 2 3 6 7 9 10] Score excerpt © 2010. Used with kind permission from MUSIKVERLAG HANS SIKORSKI GMBH & CO. KG, Hamburg.

ascending in chromatic motion. The bass strings and electric guitar appear, displaying a new tonal color in D harmonic minor, and the soloist plays a motive that anticipates the tango, which is the next theme, and which I will henceforth refer to as the A2 theme (see Musical Example 3).

chord, which is prepared by the contrabass, piano, and tuba one measure before. The solo viola then plays a ten measure section, marked “Agitated,” characterized by a sixteenth-note rhythm, and which is based on the pitch class set from before: [0 1 3 4 6 8 9]. This makes way for the second movement, which begins without pause, (see Musical Example 4).

Finally, the first movement is near to the end. In the measure 222, the orchestra closes with a large E-flat

Musical Example 3: From Movement I, mm. 113-124: Final part of the cadenza and the tango motive. Score excerpt © 2010. Used with kind permission from MUSIKVERLAG HANS SIKORSKI GMBH & CO. KG, Hamburg.

Musical Example 4: From Movement I, mm. 222-225, viola solo Score excerpt © 2010. Used with kind permission from MUSIKVERLAG HANS SIKORSKI GMBH & CO. KG, Hamburg.

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