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	Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, complete work (Allegro)
	27 min., 17 sec.

	FIRST MOVEMENT (Andante tranquillo: fugue) starts pp, with mutes on all the string instruments
						Countersubject
			Fugal exposition			Viola
						Vn 2
						Cello
						Vn 1
						Bass
			Episode 1			Short slow crescendo
			Stretto			Vn 1
						Cello slow crescendo
			Episode 2			Using fragments of the subject; mutes off; cresc. to f
			(Textural break)			First climax, ff: percussion enter
						Second climax, fff: single high note, downward scoops
						Fragments of inverted subject announced, fff, then mf, p: mutes on again
			Stretto			Inverted subject: violin 2 (muted), then viola, then violin 1 + cello
			Combination			Celesta enters: subject (above) + inverted subject (below)
						Fragments of subject and inverted subject; "converging" cadence
	SECOND MOVEMENT (Allegro: sonata form: see page 332)
			Exposition
			Development
			Recapitulation
			Coda
	THIRD MOVEMENT (Adagio: arch form)
			A			Introductory: xylophone and pedal timpani, viola and violin ruminations
						(Background cue: fugue subject: a) low strings
			B			More oscillations: celesta and solo violins. Background trills, pp
				C		(Background cue: fugue subject: a') strings (after a brief recollection of A) Further slow oscillations. Background glissandos. Crescendo f
						Piano: new motive in 5/4 meter, f--faster, climactic
						(Background cue: fugue subject: b') strings
			B			B melody now in canon
						(Background cue: fugue subject: b2) celesta and piano
			A			Terminal: violin and viola ruminations, xylophone, pedal timpani
	FOURTH MOVEMENT (Allegro molto: rondo form)
			A			With a pizzicato "preface"
			B			Timpani launch a repetitive theme: piano and pizzicato strings
			A
			C
			A'			Piano; theme is transformed
			D			Timpani launches another folklike theme
			A"			Piano; extension of A'
			E
			B			Piano
						Transition
			Original fugue subject			Transformed; slower tempo strings
						Fragments in inversionalone
			F			Cello solo--reference to the third movement (the string solos in A)
			A'''			In various transformations