Half Steps in the Flute

Listen to this achingly gorgeous melody in the flute. First it is all on whole steps, but then it changes to much more harmonically intense half steps. Now things calm down, where we are treated to a beautiful duet between a lonely obo and violin. But in the baground, half steps have appeared again. You can track the development of the piece by these appearances of the half steps. Listen for the background of the violin solo. This builds again to the third appearance of the horn fanfare, this time not muted any more. It's come much closer. In the meantime, during that violin solo, all while the strings and winds play quick motives and whole