The heroic, fanfare-like gestures played by the trumpet in measure 94 mark the
closing theme group. Ewazen's idea of moving in waves of sound reaches its highest
point thus far in the movement in this closing theme group. The undulating piano part,
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comprised of rapidly ascending and descending embellished minor chords, accompanies
the rising melodic contour of the trumpet until their conjunction at measure 104,
establishing the dominant of the original key of E-flat minor (Example 24). Two
measures later, at measure 106, the development section begins back in the original tonal
center of E-flat minor.