... in the oboe. This theme has a very narrow range and is, at first, built on two notes a semitone apart. This tune gradually expands and extends throughout the orchestra, still with the narrow range. At 175 the clarinets have this tune in octaves and at 192 the flutes and oboes have the tune using the three notes of the triad, but unusually with the oboe higher than the second flute. In the Elegia, bar 10 shows a chromatic Arab influenced tune similar to a chant. The accompaniment at this point consists of a decorated arpeggios consisting of alternating minor thirds and minor seconds. This is simply for orchestral colour, by the use of trills, tremolo, glissandi and static harmony. Bar 32 introduces the rhythm of a scotch snap in the horns. This idea is extended through the trumpets in this section. At bar 54 the theme in the oboe, clarinets and cellos ...

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