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exerting pervasive effects upon the overall structure of this and subsequent movements.«7 We have discussed metric analyses of all four Symphonies by Brahms in Fleischer (2003) in detail, now we want to focus on inner metric analyses of the Second Symphony.
3.1 First movement The metric weight of the entire exposition of the first movement Allegro non troppo (time signature
Figure 4 shows the first part of the metric weight which is characterized by metric coherence: the first onsets of the bars get the greatest metric weight. Metric |
) is divided into three parts of very different regularities, as shown in figures 
