The Slow Introduction Alternating Between Long And Short Notes Followed By A Fast Section. This is used as a basis for most of the introduction sometimes reduced to five notes and sometimes with the second last note rising instead of falling. Its sense of gravity comes from the use of dissonant diminished chords chro-matic lines and a pedal on the domi-nant a low E that takes up about the final two thirds of the introduction.
The clarinets compliment this. The slow movement is in binary form. Homophonic and reinforcing the key of C major.
A slow dark-hued introduction leads into a cadenza for the clarinet an instrument commonly found in gypsy bands.
Another name for an ostinato in the bass part Opera seria. The music of the slow introduction is based on a short six note motif first heard at the beginning. But it was published as Opus 132 and numbered as Beethovens 15th Quartet making it a confusing numerical anomaly in an otherwise chronological sequence. Your username and password are your Washburn email address firstlastwashburnedu and your Washburn email password.