Round 1: Tossup 17

In this movement’s development, winds and strings trade a motif outlining the scale degrees “5, down to 1, 2, down to 5” before it is reduced to its middle two pitches and then a single note. In “New Horizons in Music Appreciation,” Gifford Nielsen and Peter Schickele commentate over this movement as if it’s a football game. When this (15[1])movement (15[1])recapitulates a half cadence ending with a fermata on G, the first oboe plays an unexpected adagio cadenza. A motif introduced in this movement, which inspired the start of (*) Tchaikovsky’s fourth (10[1])symphony, later interrupts its symphony’s joyous finale in the parallel C major. This Allegro con brio movement begins with strings and clarinets playing “G, G, G, long E-flat.” For 10 points, “fate knocks at the door” in what movement that opens a Beethoven symphony? ■END■

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