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Skladateljska društva nekoč in danes | Composers’ Societies Past and Present

Example 5: Pet skladb. Allegro ma non troppo (b. 1–4).

Written two years later, Symphony No. 2 shows the turn of composi-
tional thinking. Škerl also noted that he wrote the Symphony in a week at
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Trenta, Slovenia. Formally, it is a five-movement cycle connected with-
out pauses (Table 2). It features a Largo at both the beginning and the
end, incorporates the same material in the contrasting parts of the sec-
ond and fourth movements, and includes folkloristic elements in the cen-
tral Adagio as a reference to the common material in Bosnian composi-
tional practice of the time, thus creating a global arch form of the cycle.
The legacy of the past – as suggested by the Symphony’s nickname, Mon-
othematic – once again finds its technique model in monothematicism,
through which a single basic idea is exposed and manipulated. The Sym-
phony stylistically oscillates between two types of musical thinking: ne-
oclassical, in which there is a constant focus on the harmonic centre and
thematic work, and expressionist, with elements characteristic of organ-
ised atonality, i.e. serialism.

Table 2: Symphony No. 2. Global form.

Mvmnt Largo Allegro energico Adagio Vivo Largo
Harmonic g In C: In D: In G: g
center
Form Fugato ABA Ritornelo form ABA Fugato

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