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The Row in the Violin
The violin introduces the line that despite its triads is very ambiguous harmonically. In fact these four notes are the first four notes of a Bach choral melody, Estes de Knuch. Berg quotes this theme directly and then juxtaposes it with a fully harmonized tonal version of the Bach played by the clarinets.