Mazzola, Guerino / Noll, Thomas / Lluis-Puebla, Emilio: Perspectives in Mathematical and Computational Music Theory

any significant differentiation whatsoever. In Fleischer (2002b) this phenomenon therefore was called mutual annihilation.

Figure 50:

Metric weight of measures 1-59 for the first violins

Figure 51:

Metric weight of measures 78-154

Figure 52:

Detail of figure 51

The analysis of the second part (measures 78-154) in figures 51 and 52 reveals great metric weights on the second and fourth beats as well. The isolated metric analysis of the string instruments in figure 53 again shows a complementary structure, since the highest layer is built upon the first and third beats of the measures. In contrast to this the isolated analysis of the wind instruments in figure 54 gains a less structured weight, nevertheless great metric weights on the second beat often can be found.

Figure 53:

Metric weight for the string instruments (measures 78-154)

Figure 54:

Metric weight of measures 78-154 for the wind instruments

The latter we can observe within the isolated analysis of the first violins in figures 55 and 56 as well. The great metric weights on the second beats correspond to the rhythmic accentuation of this beat by placing half notes on it (see figure 57), the low metric weights on the first beats correspond to the tying together of the first beat of the measure with the last beat of the previous measure, such as in