the second movement, in e major, alternates two contrasting themes in sonatina form (sonata form without development, with a quietly dramatic, elegiac, extended coda that could be characterized as a concluding development section). the lyrical first theme is introduced by the horns, low strings, brass, and high strings playing in counterpoint. the plaintive second theme, in minor, after four simple unharmonized notes in transition spelling out the tonic chord of the relative c minor quietly by the first violins, begins in the solo clarinet in c minor and continues in the solo oboe in c major in an example of the major–minor juxtapositions that are a hallmark of schubert's harmonic language.