Less symmetrical layouts became common with the development of the natural style of the "jardin anglais", which attempted to create vistas of a rural idyll.
There is a lengthy instrumental introduction to the first song, in which the cry of the curlew is represented by the cor anglais and the peewit by the flute.
The recapitulation sees a dissonant version of the fate motif displaced by a cor anglais solo which meanders towards a restatement of the second subject.
