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... bass parts are based on the principle of the perfect fourth and major second. This theme is in diminution and is picked up by the violas two bars later. In bar 39 the trumpets take over the flute idea from bar 30 and develop it. This is a verbunkos Hungarian melody, a synthetic Hungarian style incorporating all Hungarian music. The introduction part three begins in bar 51, and this is a further development of the flute idea at bar 30. Bar 63 sees a glimmer of the very chromatic first subject. The exposition begins in bar 76, with the tonal centre of F. The exposition is usually made up of two main themes. Theme 1a begins with a melody similar to that of a Serbo-Croat melody. Throughout the whole Concerto for Orchestra there are themes derived from these six notes, the germinal motive: F, G, Aflat, B, Bflat, C. The outline of ...