The piccolo plays its birdsong theme until bar 33, the end of the A section. ... The theme heard in bar 33 is inverted and extended in the violins. ... This theme seems to signal then ending of a section. ... The material then heard is music taken from the first movement of this piece, intoduzione. The texture is thick, with melodies often split into two separate parts. ...

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