This is the first movement of my second Horn Sonata.
The music of the first section is based on the opening idea. The
descending glissandos and the repeated note figures should be taken in a
leisurely way, a piacere, rather than in totally strict time. In bar
10, the flz should appear out of the tied note, without a fresh tongue.
From letter A, the music is based on the repeated note patterns which
are gradually developed and metamorphosed into new shapes in a gradual
process. At letter B, a second motif is added which is more expressive
and dynamically diverse. The development of this idea reaches a climax
at the rall befor letter C, frome where this idea becomes more frenetic
and agitated until it 'tires itself out' in the pauses before letter D.
Here the original repeated note motif reappears to provide a basic
ternary shape as the original ideas, changed by the development process
are re-stated in their new forms. The closing pauses should be played as
marked, with comma breaks, but not between the two notes in the
penultimate bar.