ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
Trumpets step through like an axis, drawing attention.
A harmonic mildness characterises the main theme:
Example 28.
The epic subsidiary theme creates no special contrast with the main theme:
Example 29.
In addition several other images fleetingly appear in the development, though,
strictly speaking, they cannot be qualified as themes. Such development illustrates the
individuality of Eller: all images are utilised, although reshaped to the point of being
unrecognisable. The principle of variation is used in the widest sense of the term.
Eller’s thought is displayed in refined details. Tonality is interwoven with atonality:
such musical language was extremely bold at that time. Fourth is made the essential
interval in the chord structure. At the same time the use of the mild harmonies of
seventh chords is present.
Ghosts is a freely constructed chain-form with a miniature recapitulation. A