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| | Musical Times: Carter as symphonist: Redefining boundaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The wistful, whimsical feeling of the piece, typical of early Carter, remained, free of symphonic bombast. |
 | | Even so, this charm was lost on its few audiences, and the work has remained in the shadows since its premiere, despite the enthusiasm shown for it by Howard Hanson, Fritz Reiner and, though it would seem alien to his sensibility, Edgard Varese. |
 | | Here he replaced the thematic contrast of sonata form with a contrast of tempos in a ratio of 3:2, with the pandiatonic thematic material developing continuously throughout the movement, and with the rate of both tempos gradually increasing and then decreasing. |
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