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Symphony no.6: 5th movement (Allegro)
"Thunderstorm, tempest"
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Effective means of impressionistic technique are applied to illustrate the breaking of a thunderstorm.
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bars 78-111
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The 3rd, 4th and 5th movements of the "Pastoral" are linked up without break. For the first time we can hear the trombones and drums, later on the piccolo. The movement depends on the effects of the different instruments. The natural elements of a thunderstorm are: rain, thunder, lightning, the whistling of the storm, the striking of a lightning.
Beethoven uses various instruments to characterise these elements:
1. rain - the staccato movement of the violins in eighth-notes
2. thunder - the violins play an ascending scale in quintuplets; the double basses have one note less, which results in a figure of sixteenth-notes
3. lightning - a fragmented triad in the 1st violins
4. whistling of the storm - represented by the piccolo
5. the lightning strikes - the pulsing of the drums
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