A sample of Liapunov's epigonic style may be quoted from the second theme (cited above) as it undergoes polyphonic extensions in the first development section (Ex. 122).

Seminification and propagation from the feed or seminal parts

Men who made it a custom to travel the trail to Dawson, likened him to a robber baron, perched in his fortress and exacting toll from the caravans that used his ill-kept roads.

Divint gan near the Seghill mine. Lyric from the Northumbrian folk song Blackleg Miner