ABSTRACT
This chapter describes on the discussion in Tempo 196 in that it continues the investigations into the formal structures of the symphonic scherzos and slow movements which is initiated there by looking at Davies's Second Symphony. The sheer scale of Davies's symphonic output militates against a thorough analysis in an article such as this, and therefore it seemed useful to concentrate on making comparisons between the symphonies even though this necessitates a non-consecutive approach to the study. Nevertheless, it is quite obvious that there are a number of constants as well as some developments which can be discerned in Davies's approach to aspects of symphonic form over the twenty years or so between the First and Sixth Symphonies. The structure of the Fourth Symphony scherzo is quite different from that of the Second Symphony where subsections of the formal structure repeat seven times, albeit with internal development.
