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A single note (b) is exposed out of the heavy silence and slowly enriched chordally up to twelve-part harmony, in order to let the piece fade away again into nothingness, as it began. The static passages are enlivened by frequently changing modes of tone production (con sordino, col legno, sul ponticello, sul tasto, pizzicato), to which glissandi, tremolos, harmonics and great dynamic increases up to the free playing out of the strings in brilliant scales also contribute.