The third movement is the D minor Funeral March depicting the scene from the woodcut: The Hunter's Funeral Procession . It starts with a muffled drumbeat, alternating D and A – the interval of a fourth again. This leads into a canon on the children's rhyme Bruder Martin , otherwise known as Fr ère Jacques . A central Trio in G major is based on material from the fourth of the Gesellen songs ( Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz ), after which the Funeral March returns, and the movement ends quietly, as it began, with the alternating D and A drumbeats.
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