Dix-huit heures, on repose les archets

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Intro: solo muted trumpet, high staccato figuration

[Theme: tight pizzicato strings, high violin over, no percussion]

[Variation I: pizzicato thinned to two voices, violin sustains a semitone flat against the piano]

[Variation II: viola pizzicato alone, violin figure fragmented, footsteps crossing the room implied by pizzicato lower strings]

[Variation III: single violin, bow lifted and set down on the chair, notes falling away over north light on the wooden floor]

[Coda: pizzicato returns for four bars, thinner, hurried]

Outro: cut mid-phrase, no resolution