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Nov 16, 2020 · Antonin Dvorak wrote his Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," soon after arriving in America in 1893. A yearning melody from the second movement took on a new life as a popular American song that continues to be reinvented.
I. Adagio – Allegro molto. The movement is written in sonata form and begins with an introductory leitmotif in Adagio. This melodic outline also appears in the third movement of Dvořák's String Quintet No. 3 in E ♭ major and his Humoresque No. 1. The exposition is based on three thematic subjects.
There’s a gradual change of character and a new simple melody is heard at 3:25, which sounds like a folk tune – see if you can imagine people dancing to it! Watch out for the flute solo at 4:35 – a beautiful melody, which is soon taken up by the whole orchestra.
The introduction of the closing theme is rhythmically equivalent to the main theme, but otherwise it is of a quite different, lyrical character. It is often highlighted for its close similarity with the melody of the spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Dvořák also treats this theme in the symphony’s subsequent movements.
The delicate close of the Largo, after the songful repeat of the cor anglais melody, is memorable. The movement’s central episodes are equally poetic, particularly the gentle clarinet theme over murmuring bass pizzicatos .
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Oct 31, 2016 · It is likely (but not certain) that while working on the symphony, Dvořák demonstrated the melody for Burleigh, who later executed it as a song with the lyricist William Arms Fisher. The sadness and the transcendent quality of “Goin’ Home” was perfectly suited to another of Dvořák’s primary sources for the Symphony No. 9, Longfellow ...
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Largo: A chorale-like sequence of mellifluous brass chords introduces a set of variations on a tender cor-anglais melody, aching in the gulf between two worlds. This stream of nostalgic serenity is interrupted, at its heart, by a much livelier variation which draws in the motto.
