ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
His feeling is
sober, there is no empty pathos.
The Second Symphony (1968)1 stands closer to the spirit of renovation in
Estonian music. This can be sensed in all the means of expression. The work is atonal
and polytonal with elements of dodecaphony.
The first movement is mono-thematic, the subsidiary theme grows from the
main theme:
Example 151.
The subsidiary theme is built up on twelve unrepeated sounds but the national
character is not lost:
Example 152.
The motif as well as the rhythmical transformation and repetition are applied as
a method of development. There is a flexible texture: soft and lyrical, lamenting and
elegiac, attacking and marching, shouting and dramatic.
The weakening “wicked powers” disappear at the end. The harmony grows from
the intertwining of several lines; the clusters have an important role. Polyphonic linear
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