Listening Chart 23 Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, second movement (Allegro)

Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, second movement (Allegro)

Sonata form. 7 min.

EXPOSITION image
0:00 Theme 1 With pizzicato “preface”
0:22 Held note, drum
0:25 Bridge
image Big stop, after drumbeat
Second group image
0:56 Theme 2
1:10 Theme 3 Folklike tune, strong beat
Developmental
1:32 Theme 4 Over a string trill
2:04 Cadence theme Piano image
2:24 image Exaggerated cadence; drumbeat
DEVELOPMENT
2:28 Section 1 Irregular rhythms: piano and percussion, leading to the Stravinskian passage
3:14 Section 2 Pizzicato scales, from the “preface”
3:34 New folklike tune
Drum prepares:
4:04 Section 3 Crescendo
4:54 (retransition) Drum grows insistent; slowdownimage
RECAPITULATION
5:10 Theme 1 With timpani; meter change
5:28 Bridge
Second group
5:40 Theme 2 Transformation: triple meter
5:51 New continuations
6:04 Theme 4 Transformation: triple meter
6:24 Cadence theme Piano, as before
CODA
6:32 New fast dialogue on theme 1