Listening Chart 17 Brahms, Violin Concerto in D, third movement
Brahms, Violin Concerto in D, third movement
Rondo. 7 min., 43 sec.
| 0:00 | A (Tune) | The entire tune is presented. |
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| 0:00 | a | Solo violin, with double stops | |
| 0:11 | a | Orchestra | |
| 0:22 | b | Solo violin | |
| 0:35 | a′ | Orchestra | |
| 0:46 | The solo violin begins the cadences ending the tune, which lead into a transition. | ||
| 1:04 | Fast scales prepare for B. |
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| 1:14 | B (Episode 1) | Melody (emphatic upward scale) in the violin, with double stops; inverted scale below it, in the orchestra | |
| 1:34 | Melody in the orchestra, with inverted scale above it | ||
| 1:49 | Cadential passage (orchestra), f | ||
| 2:00 | A′ | ||
| 2:00 | a | Solo | |
| 2:11 | a″ | Orchestra | |
| 2:20 | Transition (orchestra and solo), p |
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| 2:38 | C (Episode 2) | Lyrical tune (solo and orchestra), p | |
| 3:11 | Expressive climactic section, solo | ||
| 3:22 | Orchestra interrupts, f. | ||
| 3:27 | Scales prepare for B. | ||
| 3:35 | B | ||
| 4:22 | A′′ | Starts with b′ (solo) | |
| 4:43 | a′′′ | In orchestra, extended; the real feeling of “return” comes only at this point. | |
| 5:08 | Short cadenza | Solo, double stops again; orchestra soon enters. | |
| 5:25 | Solo trills and scales; motive 
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| 5:54 | Passage of preparation: motive
in low French horns |
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| 6:09 | Short cadenza | ||
| 6:20 | Coda | Mostly in 6/8 time. Starts with a marchlike transformation of phrase a (solo), over a drumbeat. |
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| 6:44 | References to B | ||
| 7:16 | Final- |
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| 7:29 | The music dies down and ends with three loud chords. | ||
From Brahms’s score of his Violin Concerto.
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