1. Both works end on a possible return, on what might look like a bleak diminuendo but is really an anxiety state.
2. The song of the oyster, though not silenced , was diminuendo amore.
3. Trombones sharply pronounce a D, followed by tuba and oboe in a sudden diminuendo.
4. Repeat starting pianissimo and making a crescendo to forte and then a diminuendo.
5. The song of the oyster, though not silenced , was diminuendo con amore.