This selection is noteworthy for many reasons; one reason has to do with its?

a) small number of performers
b) extraordinary brevity
c) compression of a four-movement scheme into a single continuous movement
d) dotted rhythms, rumbling tremolos, fully-voiced chords, sudden contrasts of dynamic, and long declamatory passages marked "Recit"


b

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