When the audience applauded — testimonies differ over whether at the end of the scherzo or the whole symphony — Beethoven was several measures off and still conducting.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

The scherzo and slow movement, with their alternation of melodies, are models for Bruckner's spacious middle movements, while the finale with a grand culminating hymn is a feature of almost every Bruckner symphony.

Holst did complete a scherzo for the symphony before his death ; this music has been recorded.

The overture has been lost ; the scherzo was later absorbed into the Roma symphony, and the funeral march music was adapted and used in Les pêcheurs de perles.

The symphony was followed by another orchestral work, by far the best known of Dukas's compositions, his scherzo for orchestra, L ' apprenti sorcier ( The Sorcerer's Apprentice ) ( 1897 ), a short piece ( lasting for between 10 and 12 minutes in performance ) based on Goethe's poem " Der Zauberlehrling ".

A scherzo ( plural scherzos or scherzi ) is a piece of music, often a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony or a sonata.

The scherzo remained a standard movement in the symphony and related forms through the 19th century.

Richard Wagner has argued that the third movement was intended as the slow movement of this symphony and that the second should be played as a scherzo.

It was customary for the first movement in a symphony to be allegro and in sonata form, the second andante or adagio, the third a fast scherzo or a Menuett, and the fourth a lively allegro.

" However, Shostakovich provides a solid symphonic framework for the work-a strongly dramatic opening movement, a scherzo, two slow movements and a finale ; fully justifying it as a symphony.

More recently, the English musicologists Gerald Abraham and Brian Newbould have also offered completions of the whole symphony, using Schubert's scherzo and the entr ' acte from his incidental music for the play Rosamunde.

The symphony follows classical sonata form: first movement, slow movement, scherzo, and finale, thus honoring the poem's four sections.

In the structure of the traditional Russian romantic symphony, the scherzo precedes the slow movement, as established by Borodin and Balakirev.

For the third movement, poco allegretto instead of using a rapid scherzo, standard in 19th century symphony, Brahms has created a unique kind of third movement that is moderate in tempo ( poco allegretto ) and intensely lyrical in character.

In the Second Symphony, Brahms preserved the structural principles of the classical symphony, in which two lively outer movements frame a slow second movement followed by a short scherzo:

A cut version of the scherzo of this version was used in the first recording of this symphony, by Fritz Zaun in 1934.

Yet the work is sometimes called a symphony ; it consists of two powerful outer movements framing a lighter, faster piece which acts as a type of scherzo.

Following the trio, the second occurrence of the scherzo, unlike the first, plays through without any repetition, after which there is a brief reprise of the trio, and the movement ends with an abrupt coda.

The central movement ( of three ) is a highly ingenious set of variations, which are grouped to suggest the characters of slow movement and scherzo.

The revised version of the Fourth features a scherzo – the " Hunt scherzo " – in which the outer sections are in 2 / 4 meter, not the customary 3 / 4.

A livelier form of the minuet later developed into the scherzo ( which was generally also coupled with a trio ).

* Most of the scherzi of Beethoven's symphonies ( but not of his sonatas ), such as that of his Pastoral Symphony, contain two appearances of the trio, in which the second is sometimes varied and after the second of which the scherzo material often returns much foreshortened by way of a coda.

It is also the form used in the minuet ( or scherzo ) and trio, which, in the Classical era, was usually the third movement of symphonies, string quartets, sonatas and similar works.

He also started a Symphony in C major, of which he completed much of the first movement, scherzo and finale by 1866.

The second movement is a scherzo, which would be expected as a third movement structure rather than a second.

This journey from night to day proceeds via an extraordinary third movement scherzo, marked schattenhaft ( shadowy ), which may have been what prompted Arnold Schoenberg to become a particular champion of the work.

The three middle movements are all in ternary form, of which the third is in time signatures typical of Bulgarian folk music: nine quavers in each bar in uneven groups of 4 + 2 + 3 for the main scherzo, and ten quavers in groups of 3 + 2 + 2 + 3 in the trio.

This is the first symphonic movement in which the timpani are tuned in octaves, foreshadowing the similar octave-F tuning in the scherzo of the Ninth Symphony.

The scene is now set for the peculiarities of the second scherzo, which has a somewhat driven and harried character, and this also has significant connections to Mahler's recent work: the sorrowful first movement of Das Lied von der Erde, Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde.

The middle movements, one of which was intended to be a scherzo — a mark that Brahms intended a symphonic concerto rather than a virtuoso showpiece — were discarded and replaced with what Brahms called a " feeble Adagio.

Other notable cues include those for The Roman Forum, composed to accompany Commodus's triumphal return to Rome as the newly-installed Emperor ; a percussive scherzo for a barbarian attack by Ballomar's army ; the Tarantella danced by the Roman mob on the evening presaging the gladiatorial combat between Livius and Commodus ( which seems to be modelled on the Tarantella movement from the Piano Concerto of Tiomkin's teacher Ferruccio Busoni ).

Following this dark interlude, Beethoven inserts a more intense presto section in 2 / 4 meter, still in the minor, which eventually segues back to the scherzo.

In an article published in the New York Herald on December 15, 1893, he stated that the second movement of his Symphony No. 9, From the New World, was a " sketch or study for a later work, either a cantata or opera ... which will be based upon Longfellow's Hiawatha and that the third movement scherzo was ' suggested by the scene at the feast in Hiawatha where the Indians dance '".

This is a scherzo, which depicts country folk dancing and reveling.

Brahms scherzo resembles the theme of Chopin at the opening, which Korsyn classifies as a type of imitation.

The music is emotive and even elegiac in tone ; it returns to the sober mood which the scherzo interrupts.

The first and longest movement is a slow movement in rough sonata form ; the second a fast scherzo with syncopated rhythms and endlessly furious semiquaver passages ; the third a moderate dance-like suite of Mahlerian Nachtmusik-or Nocturne, which is what Shostakovich called it ; and the fourth a slow andante ( again heavily influenced by Mahler ) that suddenly changes into a fast finale that has the pace of a doom-laden Gopak.

The opening scherzo has two sections which are both repeated.

Secondly, as an inherent element of the scherzo, it does not customarily display new melodies or motives, but instead uses the musical scales and triads from the first movement as motivic material which render this movement's momentum and wit.

Theodor Adorno identifies this scherzo as the model for the scherzos by Anton Bruckner.

The orchestration of the work took Bruckner until April 1887 to complete: during this stage of composition the order of the inner movements was reversed, leaving the scherzo second and the Adagio as the third movement.