This restatement could appear at first to be the second subject.
Sometimes he does this by stealth: in the second subject of the scherzo, the violins have a brief interweaving passage.
Surely it would all come off the rails when Bruckner calls for a considerable slowing down for the second subject?
The second subject can accept or reject the offer, but if it is rejected, neither subject gets paid.
Thomas Adès: See the Music, Hear the Dance The second subject of the Wells' excellent Composer Series is Thomas Adès, one of the great contemporary composers for dance.
Even though the money gained is completely free and unearned, the second subject will often reject an offer perceived as unfair.
Alexandra Palace, N22, Tue to 31 Oct The second subject of the Wells' excellent Composer Series is Thomas Adès, one of this century's most fertile sources for contemporary dance music.
At the same time the neat, almost epigrammatic character of the second subject makes it similar to a codetta theme, which is often used to round off the exposition after both main subjects have been stated.
In this richly ambiguous structure, the newly introduced motive would be regarded by the criterion of key, as the second subject; in purely thematic terms, it might almost be said to constitute the beginning of the codetta, or concluding section.
Sometimes, as in the first movement of Mozart's Sonata in B-flat Major, K 570 (1789), a tiny modification in the transition that originally led from the tonic to the dominant key is enough to effect the necessary change of key perspective and keep the second subject in the tonic key.
The torso of the unfinished 3rd Concerto brought his characteristic deftness of rhythm and a wonderful sense of "golden age" pianism, with the second subject of the piece relaxing into a beguiling range of rubatos in the span of only a handful of bars.
