Third Movement: Allegro - F Major
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| The opening tutti portrays 'La Caccia'
(The Hunt) and is based on a 'jumping' figure: |
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| At bar 14, we hear a new theme based on a quaver/semiquaver figure,
which is echoed four bars later an octave lower. A repeat of the opening
eight bars brings the first tutti to a close. |
| The first solo at bar 30 is based on the quaver/semiquaver figure
heard in the first tutti. Again, much use is made of double-stopping. |
| The second tutti is an exact copy of the opening tutti and leads
to the second solo section. The second solo starts with the quaver/semiquaver
figure and then moves to a section based on sextuplet (groups of six) demi-semiquaver
arpeggios. |
| The music moves towards the dominant key (C major), where at bar
69 the opening tutti is heard in C major. |
| The third solo depicts 'The Wild Beast Fleeing',
the soloist playing semiquaver triplets: |
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| The solo moves on to portraying 'Guns and
Dogs', the music becoming more menacing. The soloist plays a rising
sequence of scales and arpeggios, interspsersed with repeats of the opening
tutti figure, first in C major then in F major. A flourish of demi-semiquaver
scales leads to the final solo and tutti sections. |
| The final solo section depicts 'The Wild Beast,
in fleeing, dies', by a series of descending demi-semiquaver scales: |
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| A quieter section, lasting only six bars, is the basis for an extended
perfect cadence in F major. The continuo part is marked 'tasto
solo' which means play exactly what is written, i.e. no chords. |
| The final tutti begins with four bars of the quaver/semiquaver figure
before repeating the opening 'jumping' figure heard in the first tutti.
The last four bars are repeated and bring the movement to a close. |
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