New World Symphony Largo Theme✧
The twelve-bar English-horn theme from Dvořák’s Largo, with its spacious rhythm and rising final phrase.
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Opening theme
Upper answer
Return and rise
D whistle · D major · 4/4 · 55 BPM · + upper octave
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Opening theme
Upper answer
Return and rise
About this tune
Antonín Dvořák composed his Ninth Symphony, From the New World, in 1893. The slow second movement introduces a singing English-horn solo after a quiet orchestral opening.
The Largo theme moves from a low, reflective opening to a higher answer and a final rising phrase. This twelve-bar excerpt presents that opening solo as a self-contained melody.