New World Symphony

At the beginning of the second movement, the winds and strings are moving mostly together, but not exactly the same. This seems to give off the push and pull feeling of the opening part of that section of the poem. Also the general mood of the movement seems to fit. There are some tougher moments, but it is mostly happy, with birds. There is a content-feeling motive that would seem to emulate Minnehaha. The movement sounds like it is filled with longing, and is kind of pastoral in character. It uses the pentatonic scale in a lot of places too, which can be associated with the culture of the First Nations. That said, a lot of this seems appropriate, and the second movement of Dvořák's New World Symphony can very well be said to reflect "Hiawatha's Wooing."