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 Out of it grows a broad melody in the key of B major,—

which, however, after a short existence of four bars, is dissolved into an astounding passage of semiquavers for all the Strings (except the Basses) in unison and sempre pianissimo, leading into an episode entirely different and distinct from anything that has come before it, and of the most beautiful effect:—