hand Schumann, by a subtle blending of triple time in the main
upper melody and duple time in the lower, suggests that hazy
indefiniteness appropriate to the time of day when the life of
Nature seems momentarily subsiding and everything sinking to
rest,e.g.
[Music]
In many measures of the second part (i.e., 21-24) the accent is
so disguised that it seems as if we were in a twilight revery, quite
apart from matters of time and space.
[Footnote 191: As the music is readily procurable the student
should make himself familiar with the entire set.]