| This forty-minute work's four-movement structure opens with a preludial, expository movement which presents the basic material. |
| A young Vixen, in this preludial scene played by a child, frisks in, startling a frog, who leaping to safety, lands on the forester's nose. |
| If we could hear music only after an exhausting sequence of preludial actions I am sure it would suffer neglect. |
